James Monroe Tomb

Infobox_nrhp | name =James Monroe Tomb
nrhp_type = nhl


caption =
location= Hollywood Cemetery, 412 S. Cherry St., Richmond, Virginia
lat_degrees = 37
lat_minutes = 32
lat_seconds = 6
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 77
long_minutes = 27
long_seconds = 20
long_direction = W
locmapin = Virginia
area =
built =1858
architect= Albert Lybrock
architecture= Gothic Revival
designated= November 11, 1971cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1183&ResourceType=Structure
title=James Monroe Tomb |accessdate=2008-04-12|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 11, 1971cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = State
refnum=71001044

James Monroe Tomb is a site "significant for the execution of its flamboyant and delicate tracery in cast iron, the tomb is a cage over the simple granite sarcophagus of the former President, who died and was buried in New York City in 1831, but was removed to Virginia in 1858."

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/71001044.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: James Monroe Tomb] |32 KB|date=August 14, 1971 |author=W. B. Morton III |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/71001044.pdf "Accompanying two photos, from 1969"] |32 KB]

References

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.va0568 James Monroe Tomb, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Independent City, VA: 4 photos, 5 data pages and supplemental material] , at Historic American Building Survey