The Woodlands (Philadelphia)
The Woodlands | |
Woodlands Mansion | |
| Location | 4000 Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 39°56′50″N 75°12′11″W / 39.94722°N 75.20306°W |
| Area | 53 acres (21 ha) |
| Built | 1770 |
| Architect | William Hamilton |
| Architectural style | Neoclassical; Robert Adam Style |
| NRHP reference No. | 67000022 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 24, 1967 |
| Designated NHLD | December 24, 1967 |
| Designated PHMC | December 28, 1996 |
The Woodlands is a National Historic Landmark District on the west bank of the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. It includes a Federal-style mansion, a matching carriage house and stable, and a garden landscape that in 1840 was transformed into a Victorian rural cemetery with an arboretum of over 1,000 trees. More than 30,000 people are buried at the cemetery. Among the tombstones at Woodlands cemetery is the tombstone of Dr Thomas W. Evans, which at 150 feet (46 m), is both the tallest gravestone in the United States and the tallest obelisk gravestone in the world.