Category Woodlawn Cemetery

The Other Lutyens Design in North America

Woodlawn Cemetery, 400 rolling acres in the Bronx, New York, is the setting of an often overlooked footnote in Sir Edwin Lutyens’s work: his only other design, besides the Embassy in Washington, to be built in North America. The expensive architect was commissioned in 1927 by the English-born actress, Beatrice Mary Beckley, to design a […]