Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 06000573 Added to NRHP 14 July 2006 | Built 1895-1896 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | |
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Similar Dark Island Castle, Scribner Building, Charleston Baptist Temple, Lewis G Morris House, Singer Building | ||
Gov. Samuel J. Tilden Monument is a historic funeral monument located in Cemetery of the Evergreens at New Lebanon in Columbia County, New York. It was designed by noted architect Ernest Flagg (1856-1947) and built in 1895-1896. It contains the remains of New York State Governor Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886). It consists of a nine and one half ton cut granite sarcophagus on a raised platform of four cut granite steps. The crypt entrance is marked by a cast-bronze gate that provides access to three brick arched crypts.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
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