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Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

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Established
  
1872

Country
  
United States

Size
  
40 Acres

Founded
  
1872

Number of graves
  
40,000

Location
  
Type
  
Public

No. of graves
  
40,000

Phone
  
+1 206-322-1582

Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

Address
  
1554 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112, USA

Hours
  
Closed today SaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday9AM–4:15PMTuesday9AM–4:15PMWednesday9AM–4:15PMThursday9AM–4:15PMFriday9AM–4:15PM

Burials
  
Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Lee Hoi-chuen

Similar
  
Brandon Lee and Bruce Le, Volunteer Park, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian, Lake Union

Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park. It is named for its view of Lake Washington to the east. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery.

Contents

Notable interments

  • Princess Angeline - daughter of Chief Seattle
  • Walter B. Beals - Chief Justice Washington State Supreme Court. Presiding Judge, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, 1946-1947.
  • Beriah Brown - Mayor of Seattle
  • Gottlieb Burian - founder of the city of Burien, Washington
  • Denny Party members (Seattle pioneers), including:
  • Carson Boren
  • William Lee Cumming - Northwest School of Art painter
  • Arthur A. Denny
  • David Swinson "Doc" Maynard
  • Thomas Mercer
  • William Grose - second black resident of Seattle
  • Granville O. Haller - Noted businessman and military officer
  • Thaddeus Hanford - Seattle newspaper editor
  • Don A. Jones - Rear admiral in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps, final director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and first director of the National Ocean Service
  • Bruce Lee - martial artist and actor
  • Brandon Lee - actor; son of Bruce Lee
  • Denise Levertov - poet
  • William Harvey Lillard - First chiropractic patient
  • Eugene McAllaster - naval architect; designer of the fireboat Duwamish
  • John W. Nordstrom - founder of Nordstrom
  • Guy Carleton Phinney - developer whose land became the Woodland Park
  • A. W. Piper - pioneer, baker, socialist Seattle City Council member, eponym of Pipers Creek and Piper Orchard
  • George Tsutakawa - Northwest School painter and sculptor
  • Cordelia Wilson - American Southwest painter
  • Guendolen Plestcheeff
  • Monuments

    The cemetery contains the Nisei War Memorial Monument, dedicated in 1949 to Japanese American veterans, some of whom are buried there.

    References

    Lake View Cemetery (Seattle) Wikipedia