{"id":1353,"date":"2010-07-20T13:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T20:40:01","slug":"new-yorkgreen-wood-cemetery-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/new-yorkgreen-wood-cemetery-5\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Green-Wood Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/pierrepontmemorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1354\" title=\"pierrepontmemorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pierrepontmemorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pierrepontmemorial.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/pierrepontmemorial-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPierrepont Family Memorial, Green-Wood Cemetery &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church and the entrance gate to Green-Wood.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.green-wood.com\/index.php\/3\/17\/159\/123\/detail\" target=\"_blank\">Green-Wood website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Henry Evelyn Pierrepont was known as the \u201cfirst citizen\u201d of Brooklyn for good reason. He, along with his father Hezekiah B. and mother Anna Maria before him, played a\u00a0significant role in the planning of Brooklyn as a physical city, its crucial ferry services to New York, and\u00a0the establishment of Green-Wood Cemetery itself. He is considered by some to be one of the first &#8220;city planners&#8221; in the United States, a logical evolution from his father\u2019s status as the first important suburban (Brooklyn Heights) real-estate developer in American History. Pierrepont Street in the Heights commemorates the family to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierrepont Family Memorial, Green-Wood Cemetery &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Designed by Richard Upjohn, architect of Trinity Church and the entrance gate to Green-Wood. From the Green-Wood website: Henry Evelyn Pierrepont was known as the \u201cfirst citizen\u201d of Brooklyn for good reason. He, along with his father Hezekiah B. and mother Anna Maria before him, played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}