PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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HISTORIC MORAVIAN CEMETERY, NEW DORP, N. Y. 
RICH COLUMBARIUM, MORAVIAN CEMETERY. 
The historic Moravian Cenieler>' at New Dorp, Staten 
Island, N. Y., is one of the oldest in the country under mod- 
ern regulations and the views herewitii show tlie careful atten- 
tion given to the grounds liy Superintendent Allen Hope. The 
cemetery is the property of the Moravian church and the 
original tract of acres was purchased in ITfiR, though 
part of it had been in use many years liefore that, as one of 
the stones with a still legible inscription to Colonel Nicholas 
Britten bears date of 1740. In ISSO the sale of burial lots at 
8 1/3 cents a square foot Iregan, aqd additions to the groumN 
from time to time have brought the area up to 83 acres, in- 
cluding several donations of land from the Vanderbilt familw 
whose elaborate mausoleum is one of the famous: "attractions 
of the grounds. 
Another interesting structure is the Rich coluinliarium 
shown herewith, one of the few memorials <3f this character 
in the country. It is a well-designed little structure of grace- 
ful lines, and is of Westerly granite executed liy 'I'he New 
England Granite Works, Westerly, R. I. 
Lots now sell for from one dollar to three dollars a square 
foot, and general care is given to ,'dl lots from the income 
of trust funds which amount to $110,120, from lot sales and 
donations. 
No lot enclosures are allowed and in certain sections, no 
grave mounds. Foundations are erected by the cemetery 
authorities and the following regulations are in force: 
LAWN 
VI EM’ 
OF 
MORAVIAN 
CEMETERY 
NEW 
DOItP. 
STATEN 
ISLAND, 
NEM’ 
YORK. 
