Green-Wood Cemetery Is Expanding With A Completely New Visitors Center
Who knew a cemetery could be so lively?
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by One of Brooklyn’s most precious landmarks, Green-Wood Cemetery is expanding.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) released a proposal back in July of 2015, hoping to restore and connect the Weir Greenhouse to a new three-story building set to function as an exhibition, office space, and visitor’s center for the cemetery, according to Curbed. Initially, when architect Page Ayres Cowley pitched the idea to the LPC, she was turned down due to the greenhouse being an individual city landmark — leading to an entirely new re-design.
After drawing up an entirely new re-design to compliment the landmarked greenhouse, cemetery officials have announced that they are planning to increase the size of the new building that will now circle the the greenhouse, reports the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
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The City of New York has allocated $2,949,375 for the renovation of the Weir Greenhouse, in addition to a $500,000 state grant.
Green-Wood cemetery is the resting place for prestigious legions and New Yorkers, such as Brooklyn artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, composer Leonard Bernstein and thousands of Civil War veterans.
Although there isn’t a set date for the completion of the restoration, or which architect will take on the responsibility of the final re-design of the former Battle of Brooklyn (1776) grounds, the new building is expected to act as a community center in which currently over 250,000 people who visit each year.
