A team led by Snow Kreilich Architects completes a welcome center for a historic cemetery in Minneapolis

By Frank Edgerton Martin, The Architect’s Newspaper

Published October 31, 2024

Lakewood Cemetery is a 150-year-old Minneapolis landmark in an area once inhabited by Dakota tribes, a landscape of cathedral-like oak savannas and lake shores lined with wild rice. As evidence of the westward spread of the East Coast rural cemetery movement, the cemetery’s picturesque 19th-century campus is the product of settler colonialism, but today the grounds are home to a transformational 21st-century vision of how to rethink death as part of a continuum of life and memory.

At the heart of this transformation is Lakewood’s new 25,000-square-foot Welcome Center, a multidisciplinary collaboration between Snow Kreilich Architects, Miller Dunwiddie, and TEN × TEN Landscape Architecture and Urbanism…

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