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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
On entering the grounds the office is located on 
the left; it is a pretty cottage building of unique 
architecture, the exterior panelling being finished 
in Adamant plaster. In course of time vines and 
trailerswill enhance the picturesqueness of this build- 
ing. The interior contains fine waiting room with 
toilet, business room with fire proof vault and sup- 
erintendent’s office; in winter the building is made 
comfortable by furnace; for extreme cold weather 
a large fireplace can be used in addition. The plan 
utilizes the northeast corner of the grounds for sup- 
erintendent’s residence, greenhouses, barns, sheds, 
etc., which in due time will be completed. A tem- 
RUSTIC GATES, WOODWARD LAWN CEMETERY, DETROIT. 
wood with heavy undergrowth; all varieties of forest 
trees are represented, the oak predominating. 
Between 36 and 40 acres have been robbed of their 
wild character, thinned out, graded, drained and 
transformed into burial sections of various outline 
and size by gravelled drives in accordance with a 
plan furnished by E. W. Bowditch, landscape 
architect. 
The entrance is a unique rustic structure and is 
set back a considerable distance from the approach- 
ing avenue, thus leaving ample for grounds for or- 
namental planting. The entire front on the avenue 
is fenced in harmony with the massive rustic gate- 
way and is being planted with a large variety of 
vines, trailers and shrubbery. 
VIEW IN WOODWARD LAWN 
CEMETERY, DETROIT. 
porary receiving tomb is provided 
for; this in course of time will be 
replaced by a large and imposing 
structure; provisions will also be 
made for electric cars, which now 
pass the entrance, to enter the 
grounds in the southeast corner thus 
affording opportunity for the use of 
funeral cars. A system of water works is in con- 
templation, in fact work has been begun on boring 
for water and as soon as satisfactory results will 
warrant, the plan for a system will be adopted. The 
waterpipe will be put down so that ultimately city 
water can be made use of. 
Improvements on definite lines will be contin- 
ued from time to time to make Woodward Lawn a 
beautiful and quiet cemetery. 
To show his confidence in the success of this 
cemetery, Mr. F. J. Hecker, has built upon a cir- 
cular plat commanding a view of the entire main 
avenue a beautiful and costly mausoleum. The 
exterior is built of pure white statuary marble, the 
interior is constructed of Tennessee marble; cata- 
WOODWARD LAWN CEMETERY, DETROIT, MICH. 
Woodward Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., 
with its rustic landscape, was dedicated to the pub- 
lic on Saturday, June 18, 1898, with appropriate 
services conducted by several clergymen of that city. 
Electric cars had been chartered to carry those who 
wished to attend the services to the grounds; about 
1,000 were in attendance. 
Some few facts in connection with Detroit’s new 
cemetery may be of interest. The establishment of 
the cemetery was due to the fact that a burial place 
sufficiently distant from the rapidly growing popu- 
lation of Detroit in a northerly direction is needed. 
The tract selected contains the highest 
land ol any property in this locality and 
affords necessary facilities for drainage; 
the soil is suitable, and with several ridges 
and depressions affords a variation in 
levels and undulations. It contains 138 
acres which originally were, and a portion 
of which still is considerable of a wild- 
