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Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex

Coordinates: 44°39′17″N 74°59′29″W / 44.65472°N 74.99139°W / 44.65472; -74.99139
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Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex
Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex is located in New York
Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex
Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex is located in the United States
Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex
Location115 Clarkson Ave. Potsdam, New York, U.S.
Coordinates44°39′17″N 74°59′29″W / 44.65472°N 74.99139°W / 44.65472; -74.99139
Area83.6 acres (33.8 ha)
Built1865 (1865), 1901
Architectmultiple
Architectural styleLate Victorian
MPSRed Potsdam Sandstone Resources Taken from Raquette River Quarries MPS
NRHP reference No.03000026[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 26, 2004

Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex is a historic cemetery and gatehouse located at Potsdam in St. Lawrence County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1865 and the gatehouse complex constructed in 1901. The gatehouse complex is a Châteauesque style, Late Victorian red Potsdam ashlar sandstone building. It includes a receiving room for the deceased and mourners, quarters for the cemetery custodial family, and a bell tower. The cemetery includes a number of notable structures and objects including the Clarkson mausoleum (1873), Morgan family obelisk, and Soldiers Monument (1903).[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2015-12-01. Note: This includes Susan Omohundro; Ellen Burns & L. Garofalini (January 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Bayside Cemetery and Gatehouse Complex" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-12-01. and Accompanying photographs
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