Riverview Cemetery (Wilmington, Delaware)

Riverview Cemetery Company of Wilmington, Delaware
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Location	3300 & 3117 N. Market St., Wilmington, Delaware
Coordinates	39°45′27″N 75°31′42″W
Area	42 acres (17 ha)
NRHP reference No.	12000378
Added to NRHP	July 3, 2012

Riverview Cemetery is a historic cemetery on North Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware. The cemetery consists of two sections, on either side of North Market Street. The southern section consists of a long, roughly rectangular plot that was purchased in 1872, when the cemetery was founded. The landscaping of this area was designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann, and is the only known example of his work in the state. In 1899 the cemetery's size was doubled by the acquisition of a trapezoidal parcel on the north side of North Market Street. This section was laid out by the cemetery's superintendent, Goldsmith C. Nailor. The northern section is the location of the state's first community mausoleum, a Classical Revival structure built in 1917 to a pattern design by the American Mausoleum Company of Clyde, Ohio. The cemetery was founded and established by a consortium of Wilmington fraternal and social organizations as the Riverview Cemetery Company. Today, it is owned and operated by the Friends of Historic Riverview Cemetery.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

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  Community masoleum

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  Obelisk

Notable burials

• Richard McMullen (1868–1944), Delaware Governor
• John Shilling (1832–1884), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
• George Lovington "Sassafrass" Winter (1878–1951), MLB pitcher

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Wilmington, Delaware

External links

• Cemetery web site
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Riverview Cemetery