Rethinking Remembrance at Lakewood Cemetery’s Net-Zero Welcome Center

By Justin R. Wolf, enter

Published March 21, 2024

Featuring Ross Altheimer, PLA, ASLA, FAAR and Egle Vanagaite

The soon-to-be-completed project will break new ground in both programming and energy performance.

The 250-acre Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis’s Chain of Lakes area hugs stretches of Lake Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. Its rolling hills, adorned with seas of headstones, monuments, and lawn crypts, are home to some 200,000 souls, including local luminaries such as Hubert Humphrey, Bobby Marshall, Lena Olive Smith, and T.B. Walker. Like all great civic landscapes, the cemetery’s grounds are a careful composition of expansive vistas and manicured pockets that continually draw one’s gaze and calm one’s nerves. They are also complemented by some rather stunning architecture…

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