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Elmwood Cemetery

Norfolk, Italy

Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery is a historic municipal cemetery located at Norfolk, Virginia. It was established in 1853, and is filled with monuments and mausoleums that embody the pathos and symbolism of the Christian view of death as a temporary sleep. A notable monument is the Recording Angel by William Coupe

r (1853–1942) at the Couper Family plot. The Core Mausoleum (1910–1915) designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle (1867–1935), with sculptures by Edward Field Sanford, Jr. (1886–1951), is another notable resource. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It is contiguous with West Point Cemetery, listed in 2007.

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