miniatura|300px|Cemitério Kensico em Valhalla, Nova Iorque miniatura|Lago Mineola no Cemitério Kensico miniatura|The statue of an elk in Kensico Cemetery Cemitério Kensico (), localizado em Valhalla, Condado de Westchester, foi fundado em 1889, quando diversos cemitérios de Nova Iorque tornavam-se totalmente ocupados, e cemitérios jardim começaram a ser criados nas proximidades de estradas que se dirigiam à cidade. Inicialmente com 250 acres (1 km²), foi expandido para 600 acres (2,4 km²) em 1905, mas reduzido a 461 acres (1,9 km²) em 1912, quando uma parte foi vendida para o Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
O Sharon Gardens, com área de 76 acres (31 ha) é uma seção do cemitério criada em 1953 para sepultamento de judeus.
Sepultamentos notáveis
Richard Abbott (1899-1986) - ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Section, Lot 453 Mary Adams (1910-1973) - atriz. Plot: Actors' Fund Virginia Admiral (1915-2000) - pintora e poetisa, mãe de Robert De Niro Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832-1911) - Author and poet Glenn Anders (1889–1981), ator estadunidense Edward Franklin Albee II (1857–1930), Vaudeville impresario John Emory Andrus (1841–1934), mayor of Yonkers, New York, and a U.S. Congressman Peter Arno (1904–1968), cartoonist Victor Balasic Jr., (Victor Balasz) (1897-1943) Entertainer. Member of the Balasic Family Acrobats and Vaudeville Performers. He is buried in the National Vaudeville Association section of Kensico Cemetery. Plot: Lot 7822, Section 59,60, grave 291 Anne Bancroft (1931–2005), stage, screen, and television atriz. Her most notable performance was 'Mrs. Robinson' in The Graduate, Wife of Mel Brooks Wendy Barrie (1912–1978), atriz Ed Barrow (1868–1953), hall of fame baseball manager and executive Marion Bauer (1882–1955), American composer Aubrey Beattie (1865-1944) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Lee Beggs (1870-1943) ator, motion picture director. Plot: Actors' Fund Malcolm Lee Beggs (1907-1956) ator. Cause of death: Murdered. Plot: Actors' Fund Frank Behrens (1919-1986) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 427 Henri Bendel (1868–1936), fashion designer, famed for the Bendel bonnet Vivian Blaine (1921–1995), atriz/singer. William Blaisdell (1865-1931) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), Romanticist painter Jerri Blanchard (1900-1984), atriz. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 405 Paul Bonwit (1862–1939), founder of Bonwit Teller department store Evangeline Booth (1865–1950), evangelist, daughter of Salvation Army founder, fourth General of The Salvation Army Herbert Booth (1862–1926), songwriter, son of Salvation Army founder Sully Boyar (Irvin) (1923-2001), Stage and film actor. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 327 Russ Brown (1892–1964), ator Thomas Broadhurst (1858-1936), Playwright. Plot: Actors' Fund Billie Burke (1885–1970), atriz Georgia M. Burke (1878-1985), atriz. Plot: Actors Fund Lot 456 Henry Burr (1882–1941), Canadian singer of popular songs William J. Butler (1860–1927), Irish silent film actor John Call (1908-1973), ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 427 Romaine Callender (1883-1976) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Hope Cameron (1920-1998) Stage, film, and television atriz. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 1110 Ralph Chambers (1892-1968) ator. Plot: Actors' Plot Lot 400 Andy Clark (1894-1965), ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Dudley Clements (1889-1947) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Andy Coakley (1882–1963), baseball player Frank Conroy (1890–1964), British film and stage actor Bigelow Cooper, (1867-1953) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Harry Cooper (1904–2000), hall of fame golfer Frederick E. Crane (1869–1947), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals Cheryl Crawford (1902–1986), theatrical producer Milton Cross (1897–1975), radio announcer Edward W. Curley (1873–1940), U.S. Congressman George Ticknor Curtis (1812-1894), American author, writer, historian and lawyer. Royal Cutter, (1874-1955) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Charles Dalton (1869-1942) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Harry Davenport (1866–1949), American film and stage actor Olive Deering (1918-1986), atriz Dolly Dawn (1916-2002), cantor. Plot: Actors Fund Lot 321 William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915) ilustrador Robert De Niro, Sr., artist, pai do ator Robert De Niro William Wallace Denslow, (1856–1915), ilustrador Peter DeRose, (1900–1953), Hall of Fame composer Elliott Dexter (1870–1941), American film and stage actor Luigi Palma di Cesnola, (1832-1904) Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Charles Dickson (1855-1927) ator Harry Dornton, (1866-1931) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Tommy Dorsey (1905–1956), swing-era trombonist Malcolm J. Dunn, (1869-1946), ator, Motion Picture Director. Plot: Actors' Fund J. Gordon Edwards (1867–1925), prolific silent film director Sherman Edwards (1919–1981), Tony Award winning composer and songwriter Angna Enters (1897–1989), entertainer Charles Esdale (1873-1937) ator Judith Evelyn (1913–1967), stage atriz Geraldine Farrar (1882–1967), opera singer Sid Farrar (1859–1935), Major League baseball player Emanuel Feuermann (1902–1942), master cellist Ezio Flagello (1931-2009) Opera Singer. Plot: Section 10, Lot 87, Grave 2 Viola Fortesque (1875-1953), atriz. Plot: Actors' Fund Gloria Foster (1933-2001), atriz. Plot: Actor's Fund Plot Alexander Frank (1866-1939) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Lot Harry Frazee (1880–1929), owner of the Boston Red Sox. Truman Gaige (1906-2002) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Albert Gaston (1851-1931) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Echlin Gayer (1877-1926) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), Hall of Fame baseball player Dorothy Graham (1893-1959) Author. Julian Greer (1871-1928) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Ulu Grosbard (1929-2012) Motion picture and stage director, producer Leonard Grover Jr. (1858-1947) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Chalres W. Harbury (1843-1928) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Thomas Hardie (1864-1928) ator. Plot: Actors' Fund Marion Harris (1896–1944), American popular singer Valerie Jill Haworth (1945-2011) British movie and stage atriz Grace Henderson (1860–1944), stage atriz Gustave Herter (1830-1898), furniture maker and interior decorator Al Hodge (1912–1979), ator May Irwin (1862-1938), stage comedienne Danny Kaye (1911–1987), ator cômico Guy Kibbee (1882–1956), American stage and film actor Joseph Kilgour (1863–1933), ator canadense da era muda Ruth Laredo (1937–2005), pianista William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842–1927), founder of Sarah Lawrence College Herbert H. Lehman (1878–1963), politician Jeffreys Lewis (abt. 1852-1926), stage atriz Joseph J. Little (1841–1913), U.S. Representative from New York Cissie Loftus (1876–1943), Glasgow, Scottish-born and reared atriz, singer, comedian and vaudevillian Dorothy Loudon (1933–2003), Tony Award winning atriz Tommy Manville (1894–1967), heir to the Johns Manville asbestos fortune Jack McGowan (1894–1977), Broadway writer, performer, and producer Claudia McNeil (1917–1993), motion picture and television atriz Herman A. Metz (1867–1934), U.S. Congressman Anna Moffo (1932–2006), soprano William Muldoon (1852–1933), America's first wrestling champion Allan Nevins (1890–1971), American historian and journalist Anne Nichols (1891–1966), playwright and screenwriter Carlotta Nillson (1876-1951), stage atriz Frank O'Connor (1897–1979), American actor and husband of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day (1875–1943), United States Representative from New York Eulace Peacock (1914-1996), track star who beat Jesse Owens a majority of the time Ann Pennington (1893–1971), popular Ziegfeld stage star David Graham Phillips (1867–1911), journalist and novelist Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), pioneer aviatrix Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), compositor, pianista e condutor Ayn Rand (1905–1982), author, filósofo Jacob Ruppert (1867–1939), owned the New York Yankees David Sarnoff (1891–1971), broadcaster and head of RCA Fritzi Scheff (1879–1954), American atriz and vocalist Gordon Scott (1926–2007), ator Gil Scott-Heron (1949 – 2011) American soul and jazz poet, musician Ann Shoemaker (1891–1978), American atriz Richard B. Shull (1929–1999), American character actor Ivan F. Simpson (1875-1951), Scottish character actor Alison Skipworth (1863–1952), English stage and screen atriz Alfred Holland Smith (1863–1924), president of the New York Central Railroad Peter Moore Speer (1862–1933), U.S. Congressman Ellsworth Milton Statler (1863–1928), American hotel pioneer Henry Stephenson (1871–1956), ator Max Stern (businessman) (1898–1982), entrepreneur, philanthropist Ghity Amiel Lindenbaum Stern, philanthropist Lewis Stone (1879–1953), film character ator Amos Sulka, founder of international men's apparel store Oscar W. Swift (1869–1940), U.S. Congressman Fay Templeton (1865–1939), Broadway star Gertrude Thanhouser (1880–1951), atriz Benjamin I. Taylor (1877–1946), U.S. Congressman Deems Taylor (1885–1966), composer and journalist Wen-Ying Tsai (1928-2013), Pioneer American cybernetic sculptor William L. Ward (1856–1933), U.S. Congressman Charles Weidman (1901–1975), pioneer of American modern dance James E. West (1876–1948), first Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (Section 187, Lot 14037, Computer Number 15669) Spencer Wishart (1889-1914), American racecar driver William B. Williams (1923–1986), disc jockey John Willys (1873–1935), fabricante de automóveis Charles E. Wilson (1886-1972), president of General Electric Francis Wilson (1854–1935), ator Blanche Yurka (1887–1974), American theatre and film atriz Herbert Zelenko (1906–1979), U.S. Congressman Florenz Ziegfeld (1869–1932), producer of the Ziegfeld Follies
Notable interments in Sharon Gardens division Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981), screenwriter, winner of three Academy Awards Fred Friendly (1915–1998), broadcaster Robert Merrill (1917–2004), baritone, Metropolitan opera star Beverly Sills (1929–2007), operatic soprano
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Ligações externas Kensico Cemetery homepage Kensico Cemetery at Find A Grave
Categoria:Cemitérios de Nova Iorque (estado)