Albany Hebrew Cemetery (Albany, Oregon)
- Title
- Albany Hebrew Cemetery (Albany, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Alternative
- Saint John’s Cemetery (Albany, Oregon) Waverly Jewish Cemetery (Albany, Oregon) Waverly Memorial Cemetery and Park (Albany, Oregon)
- Creator
- unknown (architect)
- Photographer
- Diana Painter
- Creator Display
- unknown (architect)
- Description
- National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2015). The Albany Hebrew Cemetery, now known as the Waverly Jewish Cemetery, is located northeast of downtown Albany, Oregon, and occupies approximately two acres within the larger Waverly Memorial Park Masonic cemetery. When founded, it was the only Jewish cemetery between Portland and San Francisco. The earliest grave within the cemetery is dated 1877, and belongs to the daughter of the Isaac and Bertha Senders, an early merchant family in Albany. By the 1880s, Albany had the largest Jewish population in Oregon outside Portland. By 1924, however, the congregation recognized that its numbers were declining and came to an agreement with the Masons to take over and care for the cemetery. The Waverly Jewish Cemetery remains an active burial ground today, the only Jewish cemetery between Portland and Eugene.
- View
- Exterior
- Temporal
- 1870-1879 1920-1929
- Work Type
- sepulchral monuments architecture (object genre) complexes (buildings and sites) cemeteries tombstones (sepulchral monuments)
- Location
- Waverly Memorial Cemetery >> Linn County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 3165 Salem Avenue Southeast, Albany, OR 97321
- Date
- 1878
- View Date
- 2014-04-25
- Identifier
- OR_Linn_County_Albany_Hebrew_Cemetery_0018
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Oregon. State Historic Preservation Office
- Use Restrictions
- This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
- Source
- Oregon. State Historic Preservation Office
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Citation
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/ Oregon Historic Sites Database, http://heritagedata.prd.state.or.us/
