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City officials hope that a new use, and funding, can be found for a pair of defunct chapels in Mount Hope Cemetery. This is what is called the “new” chapel. -
Full-body burials, like the ones pictured here, are becoming less common as people increasingly choose cremation. -
Mount Hope is a 196-acre Victorian cemetery. -
There’s a label on the organ that reads “Parsons and Son.” It may be related to Parsons Pipe Organ Builders in Canandaigua. -
The “new” chapel was built to hold funerals in the cemetery. -
The walls of the pews are higher and the seats lower than you might expect. -
This monument presides over the Civil War burials. City officials hope to spruce up the monument eventually. -
Ornamentation on one of Mount Hope Cemetery’s chapels. -
Frederick Douglass’ body was stored here, in Mount Hope’s “old” chapel, until burial. -
The “old” chapel is next to a crematorium that handled George Eastman’s remains. -
City officials say that they are doing what they can to maintain Mount Hope’s chapels until funding can be found to renovate them.
Mt. Hope 2015
