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Forest Lawn Cemetery

Forest Lawn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in , , founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke. It covers over 269 acres and over 152,000 are buried there, including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, First Lady Abigail Fillmore, singer Rick James, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and inventors Lawrence Dale Bell and Willis Carrier.
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  • Type: Tomb
  • Description: cemetery in Buffalo, New York
  • Also known as: “Forest Lawn”
  • Address: Buffalo, NY

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Blue Sky Mausoleum and Buffalo History Museum.

Cemetery
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, in Forest Lawn Cemetery in , is the 2004 completion of a 1928 design by Frank Lloyd Wright as a commercial cemetery project. is situated 2,400 feet south of Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Museum
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The is located at 1 Museum Court in . It is located just east of Elmwood Avenue and off of Nottingham Terrace, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park. is situated 4,100 feet northwest of Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Zoo
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Founded in 1875, the , located at 300 Parkside Ave in , is the seventh oldest zoo in the . Each year, the welcomes approximately 400,000 visitors and is the second largest tourist attraction in ; second only to . is situated 1 mile northeast of Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elmwood Village and North Buffalo.

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Do you remember when Madonna's album Ray of Light came out? It was a touchstone moment in late-'90s pop culture, yet another megahit for the Material Girl that begat a raft of monster hit songs and enjoyed a long reign on the upper reaches of the charts.

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Perhaps doesn't have the immediate cachet of other parts of the city. The clothing boutiques on Hertel stock fashions that may not be as up-to-the-minute as the ones in the .

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are two neighborhoods in that are adjacent to each other and north of . These two areas are among the most desirable neighborhoods in the city today, and, much more than most other areas of Buffalo, were able to retain their charm, affluence, and safety throughout Buffalo's dark days from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium.

Forest Lawn Cemetery

Latitude
42.9294° or 42° 55′ 46″ north
Longitude
-78.8635° or 78° 51′ 49″ west
Elevation
614 feet (187 metres)
Open location code
87J3W4HP+QH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1972365592
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­tomb
Geo­Names ID
5117593
Wiki­data ID
Q5469014
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Forest Lawn Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة فورست لون”
  • Armenian: “Ֆորեստ Լոուն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Forest Loun qəbiristanlığı”
  • Belarusian: “Форэст Лоўн”
  • Catalan: “cementiri de Forest Lawn”
  • Chinese: “森林草原墓園”
  • Chinese: “森林草坪公墓”
  • Czech: “Forest Lawn”
  • French: “cimetière de Forest Lawn de Buffalo”
  • French: “Cimetière de Forest Lawn de Buffalo”
  • German: “Forest Lawn Friedhof”
  • German: “Friedhof Forest Lawn”
  • Hebrew: “בית הקברות פורסט לוון, בפאלו”
  • Irish: “Reilig Forest Lawn”
  • Japanese: “フォレスト・ローン墓地”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo”
  • Portuguese: “Cemitério Forest Lawn”
  • Romanian: “cimitirul Forest Lawn”
  • Russian: “Форест Лоун”
  • Slovenian: “Forest Lawn Cemetery”
  • Slovenian: “Forest Lawn”
  • Swedish: “Forest Lawn Cemetery”
  • Ukrainian: “Форест Лоун”
  • Urdu: “فاریسٹ لان قبرستان”
  • Welsh: “Mynwent Forest Lawn”

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