425 Maple St

From the National Register nomination

104-5090 Other DHR Id #: 104-5144-0129 Cemetery, Style: , 1827 Maplewood's design is reminiscent of family burial grounds, despite being the city's official cemetery. It is surrounded by a low brick wall, and trees and bushes are interspersed throughout. There are no formal paths, walks, or streets, and the stones are laid irregularly throughout. The markers provide an interesting glimpse of funerary practices of the past 170 years. Most of the stones are original. A few have been replaced due to weather and vandal damage, but the majority remain as they did when erected. Nestled in the southwest part of the District, the 3.5-acre cemetery is bordered on the southern end of Lexington Avenue by a low brick wall embedded on the top with large pieces of quartz, and on Maple Street and 8th Street NE by a low, stepped brick wall. The cemetery's topography ascends from Lexington Avenue west to 8th Street NE and is relatively densely packed with a variety of gravestones dating from 1777. The gravestones vary in size, detail, and condition, but the majority are original. Reflecting the plan of many earlier, 18th-century private American burial grounds, mature trees, bushes, and boxwoods are scattered throughout and there is not a discernable plan to the layout of the gravesites, nor do defined footpaths exist. A low retaining wall bisects the graveyard, perhaps signifying the fact that the area was annexed in two different waves: 1860 and 1888. Individual Resource Status: Cemetery Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Mausoleum Contributing Total: 1 Individual Resource Status: Shed Contributing Total: 1