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Mount Hope Cemetery is the oldest continuously operating municipal Victorian Cemetery in America with some beautiful architecture.  It was built on a glacial moraine with fantastic eskers and kettles formed over 12,000 year ago.


Victorian Gothic gatehouse built in 1874


Florentine fountain built in 1875


Sylvan Waters is  a glacial kettle


Gazebo built in 1872

Old postcard of the original north entrance to Mt. Hope

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A rare picture of the old observatory

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Old postcards of the north and south entrances

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Original chapel built during the Civil War in 1862

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The statue above was done buy the great Italian sculpture Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti for George Ellwanger who was America's greatest horticulturist.  The Ellwanger & Barry Nursery on Mt. Hope was by 1855 the largest nursery operation in the world. The statue is a figure of St. John the Evangelist writing the Book of Revelation.

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The Weary Pilgrim sculpture was done by Nicola Cantalamessa-Papotti for the wealthy wool merchant Aaron Erickson. Erickson's home is now the exclusive Genesee Valley Club of Rochester.

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