National Register of Historic Places
Dale Cemetery
Ossining, Westchester County, New York
The record
- Listed
- July 17, 2013
- Type
- Site
- Address
- 104 Havell St., Ossining
- County
- Westchester
- State
- New York
- Contributing resources
- 1 building, 9 structures, 1 site
- Coordinates
- 41.17569, -73.85388
- Reference number
- 13000500
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The story
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Dale Cemetery is a cemetery site at 104 Havell St. in Ossining, Westchester County, laid out in 1851 and designed by Howard Daniels in the rural cemetery movement style.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with local-level significance in social history, landscape architecture and art, and its period of significance runs from 1851 to 1963, reflecting its founding and a 1963 veterans memorial. As a cemetery, it also meets Criteria Consideration D.
Physical character
Its structures range in style from Classical Revival and Victorian Gothic to Egyptian Revival and Art Deco, with entrance gateposts and gates of Sing Sing Marble behind a Gothic-tracery cast-iron fence. An outdoor chapel was added in 1964, and the original 1851 exterior was altered in the early 1900s. One Egyptian Revival structure has battered walls, a stepped parapet, granite entrance columns with stylized palm capitals, bronze doors, and stained-glass windows with torch-and-wreath motifs.
Historical context
General Munson Lockwood bought farmland from John D. Arthur in 1850, and the Dale Cemetery Association took title to it in 1851, paying Lockwood, Sarah Lockwood, and James Frances $30,000. Lieutenant Samuel Young was reinterred there in 1851, and in 1869 graves were moved to the cemetery from the First Baptist Churchyard.