Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn
- Salem Fields Cemetery, Brooklyn
, builders of the largest theatre empire in the 20th century.
Architectural historian Fredric Bedoire, Professor at the Royal Univeristy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, compares the "beautiful" Salem fields to the architecturally notable mausoleums and undulating landscape to Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris. [The Jewish Contribution to Modern Architecture, 1830-1930, Fredric Bedoire, Ktvv, 2004, p. 426-7] Architect Henry Beaumont Herts designed the Guggenheim family mausoleum, modeled after the Tower of the Winds at Athens.
Notable burials
*William Bertram Greenfield (1888-1949), furrier, RMS "Titanic" survivor
*Harry Frank Guggenheim (1890-1971), newspaper magnate
*Meyer Guggenheim (1820-1905), mining industrialist
*Lipman Emanuel Pike (1845-1893) first Jewish player in Major League Baseball
*Louis B. Marshall (1856-1929) constitutional lawyer, conservationist, Jewish leader, and father of Robert Marshall
*Robert Marshall (1901-1939), wilderness activist, forester
*Edgar Selwyn (1875-1944), playwright, theatrical director/producer
*Lee Shubert (1871-1953), theatre owner/operator, producer
*Samuel S. Shubert (1878-1905), playwright, theatre owner/operator, producer
*Jacob J. Shubert (1879-1963), theatre owner/operator, director/producer
*Felix M. Warburg (1871-1937), financier, philanthropist
ee also
*List of United States cemeteries
References
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