Woodlawn Cemetery is a designated
National Historic Landmark. Although located in
Woodlawn Heights,
The Bronx,
New York City and one of the largest
cemeteries in New York City, it has the character of a
rural cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery opened in 1863, in what was then southern
Westchester County, in an area that was later annexed to New York City in 1874. It is notable in part as the final resting place of some great figures in the American arts, such as authors
Countee Cullen and
Herman Melville, and musicians
Irving Berlin,
Miles Davis,
Duke Ellington, and
Max Roach.