Glennwood Cemetery, Houston, Tx 10-13-11



Weeping Angel in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Tx 10-13-11




Weeping Angel




Just had to get a close up of the Angel's face.

Glenwood shares characteristics of other 19th century romantic garden cemeteries: It was established in a rural area (as Houston existed in 1871). It was built on a site with a distinguishing natural feature. Glenwood’s design takes advantage of the ravines leading to Buffalo Bayou to create a rolling landscape unique in Houston. It was landscaped in a naturalistic style with curving roads and walkways. Newspaper accounts of 1871 compared Glenwood to such well-known garden cemetery parks as Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Mass. (1831), Laurel Hill in Philadelphia (1836) and Green-Wood in Brooklyn (1838). Architectural historian Stephen Fox has written that Houstonians of the late 19th century considered Glenwood to be not only a cemetery but a landscaped park. Improvements in streetcar transportation brought increasing numbers of visitors to Glenwood on pleasant Sunday afternoons.
This is the most beautiful and peaceful place.  Lots of overhanging trees and extremely well kept.  The grounds are made up of deep, green grass and they keep all the headstones washed down so each and everyone of them look like they were just placed there yesterday.  If ever in Houston, do not pass on seeing this cemetery. 

We were there in the day because the gates close at 5:00pm so you cannot get in after dark.  Or not through the gates anyway. lol  There are many stories of ghost in this cemetery.  Unfortantly, we did not encounter anything unusual, and the ONLY possible orbs we caught, is in the corner picture of the Wettermark headstone.  I'll let you decide if it is an orb or just a reflection of the sun.