The Woodlawn Cemetery Annual Lot Owners Meeting
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 9:00AM
Place: Woolworth Chapel
Agenda
- Election of Trustees
- Presentation of Harkness Restoration by Commonwealth Fund
- National Historic Landmark video
- Transaction of such other business as may properly come before an annual meeting of lot owners
ONLY LOT OWNERS MAY ATTEND
To ensure your ownership rights before the meeting, stop by our Administrative Office or call toll free: 1-877-496-6352
Lot owners may also vote by proxy:
- Download the proxy form
- Complete and sign the proxy
- Mail to:
Attn: Annual Lot Owners Proxy
The Woodlawn Cemetery
Webster Avenue & E233rd Street
Bronx, New York 10470
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on June 30th, 2011 that The Woodlawn Cemetery had been designated a National Historic Landmark, the highest recognition accorded to the nation's most historically significant properties. Woodlawn, which will celebrate its 150th anniversary beginning in 2012, is one of the country's finest examples of a nineteenth-century garden cemetery. It is home to the largest and most distinguished collection of historic mausoleums in the United States, and it remains an active property. The cemetery's designation recognizes its outstanding landscape design and collection of art and architecture. It also acknowledges Woodlawn's significant role in memorializing and celebrating prominent Americans who shaped the nation's history and culture. Since Woodlawn's founding in 1863, 310,000 people, from Gilded Age magnates to pioneers for women's rights to Harlem Renaissance writers and musicians, as well as artists, athletes, and ordinary citizens, have been interred on the cemetery's 400 acres.
To celebrate Black History Month, author A’Lelia Bundles will speak about her forthcoming book on her great grandmother A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of the first African American millionaire Madam C.J. Walker. Ms. Walker hosted some of the most memorable soirees of the Harlem Renaissance at her salon, The Dark Tower, where she welcomed Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Carl Van Vechten, Florence Mills, Bert Williams, Paul Poiret and other celebrities, musicians, actors, artists and writers of the era. Meet at the Woolworth Chapel, Jerome Avenue Entrance. $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students. 1:00pm.
