Adams Memorial

Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is located at Webster Street and Rock Creek Church Road, NW, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The Cemetery falls under the governance of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, seat of Rock Creek parish. It is adjacent to U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and adjacent church grounds were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Image File history File links Adams-memorial-rock-creek. ... Image File history File links Adams-memorial-rock-creek. ... The Adams Monument by Saint-Gaudens The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. ... Map of Washington, D.C., with Petworth highlighted in red Petworth is a neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., bounded by Georgia Avenue to the west, North Capitol Street to the east, Rock Creek Church Road to the south, and Kennedy Street NW to the north. ... Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - D.C. Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2... U.S. Soldiers and Airmens Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located at the military retirement home. ... is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...

Notable persons interred at Rock Creek Cemetery

• Cleveland_Abbe, prominent American meteorologist
• Henry Adams, writer, a descendant of John Quincy Adams and John Adams
• Marion Hooper "Clover" Adams, wife of Henry Adams; Washington, D.C., hostess. Her grave is marked by the Adams Memorial featuring an unnamed sculpture, sometimes referred to as "Grief", designed and cast by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
• James B. Aswell, president of two colleges, state superintendent of education, and member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana from 1913-1931
• Howard Auster, partner of Gore Vidal, American writer
• Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone
• William Weber Coblentz, pioneer of astronomical infrared spectroscopy and solar cells
• John Marshall Harlan, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court known as the "Great Dissenter;" wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson.
• Patricia Roberts Harris, Ambassador, first African American female to serve in a Presidential Cabinet
• Frank Hatton, United States Postmaster General and editor of the Washington Post newspaper
• Oliver Hudson Kelley, a founder of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange)
• Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Paulina Sturm, daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth
• Evalyn Walsh McLean, millionairess and one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post newspaper
• Terence Powderly, long-time leader of the Knights of Labor
• Upton Sinclair, American writer
• Harlan Fiske Stone, former Chief Justice of the United States
• Tran Van Chuong, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem
• Willis Van Devanter, former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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See also

• List of cemeteries

This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ...

External links

• Rock Creek Cemetery

Coordinates: 38°56′53″N, 77°0′42″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...