![]() ![]() In Memorial Park the new Center at Maple Grove building, designed by architect Peter Gisolfi, was opened in 2009. There are approximately 83,000 interments, with approximately 30,000 of them in the Monumental Park section. Memorial Park's Presidential Circle includes a memorial to the 21 people interred at Maple Grove who died in the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. The Lodge was torn down and the original Queens Boulevard Entrance was moved further south on Queens Boulevard, next to Briarwood subway station ( E, F, and trains). ![]() The Memorial Park section was opened in 1943. All were designed by noted New York City architect James E. The Victorian Administration Building was erected in 1880 at the Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road Entrance. The Lodge Building, located at the Queens Boulevard entrance, and the Receiving Tomb were erected in 1875. The Victorian Era Monumental Park was the first section opened in 1875 and laid out in the rural cemetery tradition with panoramic winding roads through a forest covered hilly terrain, with the original entrance at Queens Boulevard. It consists of two sections Monumental Park and Memorial Park. Maple Grove is a 65-acre cemetery established in 1875 on the "Backbone of Long Island" by Colonel William Sterling Cogswell and business associates. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. ![]() Maple Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road in Briarwood/ Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York. McClure, George W., and Son and Gisolfi, Peter ![]()
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