The Woodlands Cemetery
Philadelphia, PA, 19104 US / PA
Location Description
The Woodlands’ 54-acre undulating landscape is at once a one-of-a-kind 18th-century English pleasure garden, 19th-century rural cemetery, and a modern green oasis for its neighbors in bustling University City and West Philadelphia. In 1840, local investors purchased the intact core of William Hamilton's estate to transform the grounds into a rural cemetery. Still active today, The Woodlands retains two of Hamilton's 18th-century buildings, elaborate Victorian funerary monuments, curving green contours, and majestic trees.
Location Category
- HOUSES - Mansions / Estates
- HOUSES - Period Homes / Historic
Architecture Style
- 1800s / Civil War
