Youngstown in Mahoning County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park

“Where the memory of beautiful lives will be kept beautiful — Always”

— The “Little Church” at Forest Lawn — Dedicated Memorial Day 1936 —

Forest Lawn Memorial Park Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

1. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Marker

Inscription. Established in 1930 by Dennis T. Peters, Earl McBride, Raymond Book, and Paul Ludt, Forest Lawn Memorial Park is an example of the work of Cleveland architect Munroe Copper, Jr. and landscape architects William Pitkin, Jr. and Seward Mott. As one of the earliest cemeteries that exclusively used flush markers for grave sites in Ohio, it is significant in landscape architecture as an excellent national representative of the trend toward memorial parks that developed out of lawn-park cemeteries in the early twentieth century. It has large trees, a peaceful sprawling landscape, and features that add to the beauty of the cemetery’s park-like atmosphere. The memorial park cemetery of the early twentieth century also changed how we buried the dead for decades. Hubert Eaton, Los Angeles, California, wrote in the The Builder’s Creed “I shall endeavor to build Forest Lawn as different... a great park. Devoid of misshapen monuments and other customary signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, singing birds, beautiful statuary, cheerful flowers, [etc].”

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L.A.’s Forest Lawn was the benchmark for the new memorial park, inspiring countless cemetery developers around the United States, including the new Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Boardman Township, Ohio.

National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, SG100003244, listed 12/18/2018.

Erected 2019.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. A significant historical year for this entry is 1930.

Location. 41° 2.588′ N, 80° 39.797′ W. Marker is in Youngstown, Ohio, in Mahoning County. It is on Market Street (Ohio Route 7) south of Erskine Avenue, on the right when traveling south. It is streetside at the gatehouse on the main entrance to the cemetery. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5400 Market St, Youngstown OH 44512, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Ohio’s Western Reserve

and in the Mahoning Valley.

It is also in the American Midwest.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

2. Forest Lawn Memorial Park Marker

Inscribed over the archways: Forest Lawn Memorial Park — the memory of beautiful lives will be kept beautiful always”

what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Road of Remembrance Monument (a few steps from this marker); Forest Glen Estates Historic District (approx. 0.7 miles away); Road of Remembrance (approx. 0.7 miles away); Freedom Over Slavery (approx. 0.7 miles away); Newport Village Historic District (approx. 0.8 miles away); St. James Episcopal Church (approx. 1½ miles away); The History of Poland (approx. 2.9 miles away); Peterson Park and Clock Tower (approx. 2.9 miles away).

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Market Street Entrance image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

3. Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Market Street Entrance

The maker is visible in profile centered between the two automobile archways. The flag monument is to World War I, Civil War, and Revolutionary War veterans.

Front Gate Tablets image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

4. Front Gate Tablets

“This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.” and “Mill Creek Memorial Park Association. Incorporated 1930. Trustees: R F Book • D T Peters • P M Ludt • E M McBride. Architects: Dunn & Cooper. Builders: Felix Pesa & Sons.

View from Inside the Main Gate image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

5. View from Inside the Main Gate

The “Little Church” is visible in the distance.

The “Little Church” at Forest Lawn image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

6. The “Little Church” at Forest Lawn

Back Entrance, on Glenwood Avenue image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

7. Back Entrance, on Glenwood Avenue

The William G. Pomeroy Foundation NRHP marker is on the left. Signs on the right post read, “No Dogs, No Bicycles” and “No Thoroughfare.” Sign on the left post reads, “Beware. Under Ohio law, the theft or damage of cemetery property can result in imprisonment for up to 5 years, and fines of 2,500.00 dollars. This cemetery is patrolled.”

2019 William G. Pomeroy Foundation NRHP Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by J. J. Prats, March 22, 2021

8. 2019 William G. Pomeroy Foundation NRHP Marker

“Forest Lawn Memorial Park has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018 by the United States Department of the Interior.” Marker No. 196.

Credits. This page was last revised on March 25, 2021. It was originally submitted on March 24, 2021, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio. This page has been viewed 572 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. submitted on March 24, 2021, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.