Chippiannock Cemetery
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Chippiannock Cemetery
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Celtic Cross near entrance, designed by Alexander Stirling Calder
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| Location | 2901 Twelfth St. Rock Island, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 41°28′54″N 90°34′40″W / 41.48167°N 90.57778°WCoordinates: 41°28′54″N 90°34′40″W / 41.48167°N 90.57778°W |
| Area | 77 acres (31 ha) |
| Built | 1850 |
| Architect | Hotchkiss, Almerin |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 94000437 |
| Added to NRHP | May 06, 1994 |
Chippiannock Cemetery is a cemetery located on 12th Street and 31st Avenue in Rock Island, Illinois. The word “Chippiannock” is a Native American term which means “place of the dead”. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rock Island was in need of a permanent cemetery in 1854. The town's population was 5,000 and the dead were being buried somewhat haphazardly in Bailey Davenport’s pasture, which is now Longview Park. The first board of directors of the Chippiannock Cemetery Association included Holmes Hakes, S.S. Guyer, William L. Lee, Bailey Davenport and Henry A. Porter. In 1855 Chippiannock's founders purchased 62 acres (25 ha) on Manitou Ridge and secured the services of noted landscape architect Almerin Hotchkiss to design a cemetery patterned in the rural cemetery style of Mt. Auburn in Massachusetts (America's first garden-style cemetery). Almerin Hotchkiss also designed Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
The property consists of a western slope and the crest of Manitou Ridge. The site also features gently rolling wooded hills that climb to a broad plateau. It is located near the midpoint between the Mississippi and Rock Rivers. Hotchkiss designed a system of curvilinear driveways winding around the various burial sections.
The landscape design and spectacular examples of art and architecture earned the cemetery National Register status in May 1994. The cemetery was the third cemetery in Illinois to receive this recognition.
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