Self-Guided History, Art and Architecture Walking Tour Welcome to America’s second largest and most beautiful cemetery and arboretum. This guide is meant to direct you to some of the more historic and artistic highlights that we’re sure you will nd fascinating. Generally, this walking route takes approximately an hour to two hours to complete but feel free to spend as much time as you’d like exploring our wonderful history, art, architecture, and landscape. Spring Grove consists of 733 acres with over 44 miles of paved roadways, a cascading waterfall and 15 lakes. Visit our website, www.springgrove.org to see all of the oerings we provide to our community including our online genealogy service.

We hope that you have enjoyed your tour today and look forward to seeing you at our special events and tours hosted throughout the year at Historic Spring Grove! Please visit our website for a complete listing of all activities or to book a private group tour. The cemetery grounds are open every day from 8:00A - 6:00P (Summer hours: May 1 - August 31 / Monday and Thursday 8:00A - 8:00P)

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STOP 1 - Old Administration Building / Historic Oce surrounded by a laurel wreath and laid over crossed military STOP 9 - Soldier’s Monument Also known as “The built by James Keys Wilson in 1863. The east addition was swords, making the statement that Lytle gave his life in Sentinel” or “Soldier of the Line”, this bronze statue was cast in done in 1955 by India Boyer, one of America’s rst female battle to preserve the country united. A smaller wreath is on Bavaria. It was the prototype for village square / commons architects. each side of the base and on the rear of the base is an open statues throughout America. It was shipped from NY and book laid over scrolls and quills. The granite version was placed on this mound in 1866. The model was by Randolph STOP 2 - The Gate / Carriage House also built by James K.. done by the Joseph Coduri Granite Company of Westerly, Rogers in 1864 in Rome. It was then cast in bronze by Wilson of Norman Gothic design. This is where women Rhode Island. In 1915, when the monument was copied in Ferdinand von Miller's Royal Foundry in 1865 (the same would “freshen up” from their long carriage rides from granite, a bronze relief plaque by Cincinnati sculptor foundry that cast the Tyler Davidson fountain on Fountain downtown in the late 1800’s. For many years, Spring Grove Clement J. Barnhorn was added to its front. The relief depicts Square). The base was by James G. Batterson's New England was so popular on weekends that visitors were required to 36-yr. old Lytle valiantly leading his troops, the 10th Ohio Granite Works of Hartford, CT. show entrance tickets to prove that they had relatives buried Volunteers, into battle at Chickamauga where he was fatally here! wounded on Sept. 20, 1863. The horizontal format with STOP 10 - Shelter House This octagonal limestone mounted leader in the foreground and rows of soldiers building is one of several shelter houses built by Elzner & STOP 3 - The Norman Chapel designed by Samuel behind is similar to another famous bronze relief which was Anderson. It was completed in 1886 and used by visitors for Hannaford (Music Hall, City Hall, etc.) in 1879. It is undoubtedly unknown to the sculptor. That relief is on the decades when the cemetery was THE place to visit on Romanesque or Norman design of rough-hewn limestone Shaw Memorial erected in Boston Common in the late 19th weekends. The shelter houses are no longer open to the and sandstone. The interior is Bedford limestone. The Century. It was designed by August Saint-Gaudens and it public. stained glass window on the east side was designed by memorialized Robert Gould Shaw who also died in the Thomas S.. Noble, who was head of the Cincinnati Art School middle of the Civil War, leading an African-American Union STOP 11 - Dexter mausoleum / chapel This is actually a and director of the Art Museum. A crypt was planned to be Regiment. The movie "Glory" told the story of the leader and private family mausoleum. Julius and Edmund Dexter made below the rst oor but never was built. The chapel was his regiment. KY bourbon. Edmund lived on the site of Western Southern dedicated at the funeral service of Mrs. George Life Ins. Co. on 4th street. He was visited by Charles Dickens Schoenberger on Feb. 7, 1881. Look closely at the arched STOP 6 - Muhlhauser obelisk This is possibly the tallest and the Prince of Wales. Edmund was born in England and area under the front window. This area in the basement was obelisk in the cemetery. An obelisk is a carved shaft of stone, died in 1862. This is the only known funerary monument a jail cell, used to incarcerate persons who drove their horse usually marble or granite, that was popular with ancient with ying buttresses in Ohio and possibly the United States. and carriage too fast through the cemetery. The original jail Egyptians and then again during the Victorian era in The Gothic Revival mausoleum / chapel was built for bars are still intact in the western window. At one time, America. They typically took up less space and provided four $100,000 (would cost over 1.3 million today) by Joseph Spring Grove had three night watchmen who had “orders to sides for multiple epitaphs, etc. Gottlieb and Henry started Foster and designed by James Keys Wilson (who also did the shoot on sight unless trespassers immediately identi ed the Muhlhauser Brewery in the 1800’s. Henry was one of the Historic Oce, Carriage House, and Wise Temple themselves”. rst in Ohio to use ice machines in the beer brewing downtown). It took 4 years to design and was modeled after business. In 1882, he introduced two large Arctic ice Sainte Chapelle in Paris and England's Chichester Cathedral. STOP 4 - The Cincinnati-Hamilton-Dayton Railroad Bridge machines for cooling the cellars of the plant. The plant It was constructed around 1866, after the Soldier’s Railroad tracks were laid in 1850 but the bridge was not operated until the start of Prohibition in 1919 and in 1934, Monument was placed on the mound. The marble interior constructed until 1883 because the trains were causing too with prohibition repealed, the brewery reopened under has 12 catacombs on the lower level and a chapel above much delay for funeral processions and visitors. A railroad new owners and was known as the Burger Brewing Co. until measuring 12 feet by 30 feet with a 34 foot ceiling. The station was proposed for the cemetery at one time but the absorbed by the Hudepohl Brewing Co. The Muhlhausers mausoleum was never nished due to nancial issues and directors voted against it: they felt that "on occasions the had a house and farm near Muhlhauser Station in Fair eld was originally designed to have an elevator and stained railroad might bring a whole trainload of visitors which Township. glass windows that were never installed. would be beyond their control to manage". The Avenue Rail Company operated a one-horse car line from Harrison STOP 7 - McAlpin monument George Washington McAlpin STOP 12 - West monument Charles West was the cofounder Avenue to Spring Grove Cemetery for ten cents or a ticket for is one of many area department store magnates buried in of Cincinnati Art Museum and a our mill Operator. This 14 rides for a dollar around 1876. Spring Grove. He was also Director of Spring Grove from large monument with a statue of Mr.. West seated in 1879 to 1890. The large granite monument is topped with Victorian chair has 4 caryatids representing: painting, music, STOP 5 - General William H. Lytle monument Gen. Lytle was an allegorical female gure reading the Bible to a child by architecture, and sculpture carved on the corners of the a Union General who raised and commanded Ohio's famed The Douglas Granite Works in Cumminsville). Be sure to look base. Look closely and try to match the gures with the Irish regiment. His Grandfather William was a poet and one behind the monument to view the charming little marble classical art that they represent. of the rst settlers of Cincinnati. His funeral was the occasion marker with carved cherubs, in memory of two McAlpin of "one of Cincinnati's greatest demonstrations of sorrow". A sons. STOP 13 - Salmon Portland Chase sarcophagus Mr. Chase band and ve army regiments preceded the hearse as the was Lincoln's Treasurer, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, funeral procession moved thru the streets lined with STOP 8 - Fleischmann temple This neoclassical Doric temple Founder of the IRS, and Ohio Governor. He actually thousands of mourners. It took 4 hours for the procession to was modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, Greece and chose the color green for our currency! He was born in move from Christ Episcopal Church to Spring Grove. This consists of 5,000 sq. feet of Barre, Vermont granite. The walls Cornish, NH. in 1808 and died in 1873 in Washington, granite monument is a copy of the original done by sculptor are 18” thick and the stained glass window depicts the three D.C.and reinterred in 1886 from Oak Hill Cemetery in Louis Verhagen that was erected in 1865. In 1915, due to Fates. Their name means “parts” or allotted portions. Clotho Washington, D.C. He defended many recaptured slaves severe damage from the elements to the Italian marble, the spins the thread of life, Lachesis measures it, and Atropos and was known as "attorney general for fugitive slaves”.