Thirty acres of land was quickly acquired, and George T. Clark hired as a civil engineer.

A gateway, chapel, and receiving vault (all now long-demolished) and the sexton's office (still standing) were built soon after, and the grounds graded and landscaped, including broad, winding roads and footpaths.

Just inside the gate is the original sexton's office, a one-and-a-half-story gable-front building with a shed-roof addition.

The later addition to the cemetery, located at the far eastern side, contains a Neoclassical mausoleum of gray granite.

Early monuments include a substantial number of white marble markers, many of them obelisks, dating from the late 1850s to the 1870s.