Walking the carriage-ways winding through the green oasis of The Woodlands in West Philadelphia, you will come across many elaborate and highly individualized Victorian funerary monuments. This floral ironwork covers an exterior wall with crackly, weathered ornamentation. William Hamilton built the estate on land he inherited in the late 1700s, and in 1840 it was transformed into a cemetery that is still active today. The 54-acre site was named a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

The Woodlands
Philadelphia, PA

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