Bergen Crest Mausoleum

Bergen Crest Mausoleum
View from the north side.
Details
Established	1917
Location	North Bergen, New Jersey
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°46′41″N74°01′44″W / 40.7780°N 74.029°W / 40.7780; -74.029
Size	33,000 square feet (3,100 m2)
Find a Grave	Bergen Crest Mausoleum

Bergen Crest Mausoleum is a mausoleum in Hudson County, New Jersey. ^[1]

Location

Bergen Crest Mausoleum is located atop the Palisades, east of Weehawken Cemetery.

Located at 4001 Kennedy Boulevard, the Bergen Crest Mausoleum is in town of North Bergen, New Jersey ^[2] and is adjacent to the Garden State Crematory. Along the boulevard is the Grove Church Cemetery and Flower Hill Cemetery, as well as Schuetzen Park. ^[3] It is roughly 33,000 square feet (3,100 m²) and the entire property is roughly 0.75 acres (3,000 m²). ^[1]

History

On March 27, 1917, plans were approved for the construction of a community mausoleum in North Bergen, ^[4] Under the New York & New Jersey Mausoleum Association, the two-story granite and reinforced concrete building was estimated costing $150,000 and was designed by the architect Charles Fall, ^[5] of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company. The mausoleum takes its name from its position on Bergen Hill at the edge of the Hudson Palisades where they begin their descent to the west, overlooking Weehawken Cemetery and Palisades Cemetery. ^[3]

Reported in the American Mercury journal and in The New York Times , on July 3, 1929 a crowd estimated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 people traveling from over northern New Jersey and New York ^[6] had gathered around the mausoleum in awe at the "faintly shadowed likeness of the head of Christ which was discovered on the whitish gray stone front of the building". Policemen were dispatched to keep the crowd in order and off of the lawn as they looked on curiously. Some considered it to be a miracle, ^[7] while others viewed it simply as weather markings. ^[6]

See also

• Hudson County Cemeteries

References

1. "Property Detail". N.J. Tax List History. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
2. United States Internal Revenue Service, p. 275.
3. Hagstrom Map, Hudson County.
4. State Dept. of Health, p. 25.
5. International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, et al., p. 308
6. "Crowds view 'Image' On Mausoleum Front". The New York Times. July 4, 1929. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
7. Mencken, p. 182.

Sources

• Hagstrom Map (2008). Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. ISBN   978-0880977630.
• International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers; International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers (1917). "The Bridgemen's magazine". 17. OCLC   9615234.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Mencken, Henry Louis (1929). "The American mercury". 18. American Mercury Magazine. OCLC   1480417.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• State Dept. of Health (1918). "Annual report of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey. 1917". New Jersey State Dept. of Health. OCLC   1759842.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• United States Internal Revenue Service (2003). "Cumulative list of organizations described in section 170 (c)". Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Dept. of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. ISSN   0499-6453. OCLC   2457127.

External links

• Bergen Crest Mausoleum at Find a Grave