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PO Box 7
273 Lakeview Avenue
Valhalla, NY 10595 |
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Grade schools, colleges, church and civic groups, and fan clubs come to Kensico to admire and be inspired by the sculptures and mausoleum architecture as well as to honor their heroes and to explore the beauty of the landscape. Free maps direct nature enthusiasts on a self-guided, two-mile tree walk through the cemetery grounds to locate 36 different native, ornamental and rare tree, including magnolia, birch, juniper, sassafras, gingko, copper beech, and the official tree of New York State--the sugar maple. Hundreds visit Kensico Cemetery each year to pay tribute to internationally-known celebrities who selected Kensico as their final resting place. By following a self-guided tour available in print at the Administration Building or downloaded from the cemetery’s website, visitors can find the gravesites of noted authors, gifted artists and prominent industrialists. Popular tour stops include Russian composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, author/philosopher Ayn Rand, bandleader and trombonist Tommy Dorsey, aviatrix Harriet Quimby and baseball team owners Harry Frazee (Boston Red Sox), and Jacob Ruppert (New York Yankees), among many others.
In addition to the internationally renowned, Kensico Cemetery has among its celebrities a significant number of individuals who contributed to the unique character and culture of New York City, such as Empire State Building architect William Lamb; stylists Henri Bendel, Amos Sulka, Paul Bonwit and Gustav Herter; the first director of the Metropolitan Museum Luigi deCesnola; Broadway producer Florence Ziegfeld; transportation moguls Alfred Holland Smith (New York Central Railroad), John Willys and Inglis Uppercu; society legend Tommy Manville;Yankee hero Lou Gehrig, broadcast giants David Sarnoff, Fred Friendly, Deems Taylor and William B. Williams; restauranteur Joseph Baum (Four Seasons, Windows on the World); New York prosecutor Burton Turkus (Murder, Inc.); Broadway stars Danny Kaye, Faye Templeton, Vivian Blaine, Dorothy Loudon and Claudia McNeil; New York governor Herbert Lehman; New York society cartoonist and satirist Peter Arno; and lyricist Charles Lawlor (“The Sidewalks of New York”), to name just a few.
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