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Boxwood Cemetery

Boxwood Cemetery
Boxwood Cemetery is located in New York
Boxwood Cemetery
Boxwood Cemetery is located in the US
Boxwood Cemetery
Location 3717 N. Gravel Rd., Medina, New York
Coordinates 43°14′04″N 78°23′59″W / 43.23444°N 78.39972°W / 43.23444; -78.39972Coordinates: 43°14′04″N 78°23′59″W / 43.23444°N 78.39972°W / 43.23444; -78.39972
Area 19.39 acres (7.85 ha)
Built 1849 (1849), 1903, 1925
Built by Harry Ellis
Architect Levan Merritt, Adam Garter, Albert L. Swett , Charles Ingersol
Architectural style Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 13000450
Added to NRHP January 27, 2015

Boxwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Medina in Orleans County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1849, and is the resting place of many early settlers. The cemetery includes approximately 5,000 marked burials in the cemetery, spanning from 1849 until the present day. It features entranceways flanked by Medina sandstone columns and wrought-iron gates built in 1925. Located in the cemetery is a Gothic Revival style chapel built in 1903 of rough-cut red Medina sandstone.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.



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