Some at L.A. City Hall thought it already was, with a history and architecture so intimately tied to the development of the region, and to Hollywood.
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday, March 21, will consider a unanimous recommendation from the city’s Cultural Heritage Commission to designate the Hollywood Forever Cemetery an historic-cultural monument.
The monument designation was recommended for the cemetery’s association with the early development of Hollywood and the western expansion of Los Angeles during the 20th century, as well as for its association with the development of the cemetery industry in L.A. and the development of Jewish burial facilities in the city.
Heather Goers, senior architectural historian of Historic Resources Group, spoke to the commission about the significance of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery before it voted to recommend the property’s designation. She noted that the period of significance for the property spans from 1899, the cemetery’s establishment, to 1941, when the Douglas Fairbanks Monument was erected. That monument was designed by Howard Seidell of the Georgia Marble Company and was erected two years after actor’s death.
As part of the cemetery’s western development, it set aside a portion of the property for Jewish burials in 1927. That same year, the cemetery also began developing a mausoleum exclusively for Jewish interment. The property became a tourist destination due to high-profile and celebrity burials, which began as early as 1910, when the victims of the Los Angeles Times bombings were buried in the cemetery.
Goers added that many of the celebrities who were buried at the cemetery in its early years could have chosen more established cemeteries but decided to “be buried instead in the community that they helped build.”
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