PARK 
AND CEMETERY. 
The floors are of concrete, and the 
toilets of marble and tile. The cost 
of the structure was $2,500. 
The Lowrie-Goodrich mausoleum, 
one of the finest private mausoleums 
in the country, has been given a rare- 
ly impressive site and setting. It has 
ample room on a lot 150 by 120 feet, 
on a knoll that is planted with a fine 
growth of trees. There is nothing in 
lencies. It was organizeil upon a 
broad, and as near a public Iiasis as 
possible and not be controlled by the 
municipality. In every other sense it 
is a public institution and belongs to 
the people. 
The volunteer organizers who es- 
tablished Lakewood, and who have 
for forty years given their best 
thought, energy, and devoted atten- 
spot in the vicinity of a city whose 
surroundings have no equal in beauty 
East or ^\■Tst, was obtained. 
The establishment of Lakewood 
dates from July, 1871, when a few of 
th.e leading citizens of Minneapolis 
held an informal meeting and ap- 
pointed a committee to procure a 
suitable location for a cemetery. 
An association was organized called 
LODGE AT CALHOUN ENTRANCE TO LAKEWOOD; ROOF OF REST HOUSE IN BACKGROUND AT LEFT. 
the surrounding scene to mar the ef- 
fect. The picture is one of the finest 
monument views in any cemetery by 
reason of the simple, natural dignity 
of both structure and setting. It is 
a rare view and one might well im- 
agine would be rarer still when the 
foliage is heavier on the surrounding 
trees. The tomb itself is a fine type 
of classic architecture and cost about 
$40,000. 
As Lakewood was established forty 
years after the first rural cemetery 
association in the United States was 
organized, at Boston, its founders had 
the experience of those pioneers, and 
others at Philadelphia, Brooklyn and 
Pittsburg, and could profit by their 
mistakes as well as adopt their excel- 
tion to its growth and conservation, 
have done it solely for public good, 
with no reward other than comes to 
all good citizenship. It pays no divi- 
dends; its revenues are in trust and 
can only be used for the development 
and care of the cemetery; and no 
board of trustees can in any way 
divert them to other purposes. 
Thus the charge for lots and for 
services are as low as a conservative 
business policy will allow. 
Nature has given to Lakewood a 
setting that approaches the ideal. Its 
location was chosen at a time when 
there were no restrictions to control, 
or selfish interests to interfere with 
the selection of the site or its devel- 
opment. Thus the most beautiful 
“Lyndale Cemetery Association,” a 
little later changed to "Lakewood,” 
the change being approved by Act of 
Legislature, February 26, 1872. The 
organization being completed, the 
committee on location reported, that 
after careful examination of various 
tracts of land, they had decided upon 
one, owned by William S. King, lying 
between Lakes Calhoun and Harriet, 
the finest water features of the won- 
derful Minneapolis park system. They 
recommended that a tract of one hun- 
dred and thirty acres — which the 
generosity of Mr. King had made 
possible — be purchased. This was re- 
solved upon, and stock to cover the 
expenses was soon subscribed. 
Those who originally advanced the 
