THE TRANSFORMATION OF A HISTORIC CEMETERY
The Architect’s Newspaper | 10.31.2024
“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…”
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