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William Coblentz (1873–1962), American physicist, notable for pioneer contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy (section O).

Catherine Cate Coblentz (1897–1951), writer, wife of William Coblentz (section O).

Edward Clark (1822–1902), Architect of the Capitol.

Camille Chautemps (1885–1963), Prime Minister of France.

Buchanan (1811–1878), American military general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War (1914–1989), former United States Ambassador to Liberia

Montgomery Blair (1813–1883), Lincoln's Postmaster General (section A).

Emile Berliner (1851–1929), German-born American inventor of the gramophone (section M).

Berding, journalist and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Joseph Bray Bennett (1833–1913), Wisconsin state senator and appointments clerk at the U.S.

Eliza Grace Symonds Bell - wife of Melville Bell.

Melville Bell (1819–1905), Scottish teacher and inventor, father of Alexander Graham Bell, Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial (section A).

Constitution, first president of the University of Georgia (section E)

Abraham Baldwin (1754–1807), Yale graduate, U.S.

Gravesite of Emile Berliner and family members Aswell (1869–1931), American educator and member of the House of Representatives from 1913 to 1931 Andrews (1794–1868), Union Army general and paymaster-general of the United States Army (1862-1864)

Frank Crawford Armstrong (1835–1909), Confederate general.

Doug Allison (1846–1916), American baseball player.

Alice Warfield Allen (1869–1929), mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson (section G).

Clover Hooper Adams (1843–1885), Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer, wife of Henry Adams grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E).

presidents grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)

Henry Adams (1838–1918), American writer, descendant of two U.S.

John James Abert (1788–1863), Chief of the Corps of Topographical Engineers.

Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), prominent American meteorologist (section M).Numerous fine works by unknown sculptors also exist in the cemetery.

Adolph Alexander Weinman, Spencer Memorial, after 1919.Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Adams Memorial, 1890.William Ordway Partridge, Kauffmann Memorial, also known as Seven Ages or Memory, 1897.Laura Gardin Fraser, Hitt Memorial, 1931.James Earle Fraser, Frederick Keep Monument, 1920.Gutzon Borglum, Rabboni-Ffoulke Memorial, 1909.Other notable memorials include the Frederick Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument that is known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument. Saint-Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper 'Clover' Adams and her husband, Henry Adams, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as Grief. The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. Later, the Vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery, within its district boundaries as established in 1791, formerly, being a part of the state of Maryland, and formally established through an Act of Congress in 1840.Īn expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish. The cemetery was first established in 1719, under the British colony of the Province of Maryland, as a churchyard within the glebe of St.

On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. It is across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m 2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.