Rock Creek Cemetery

Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery.

On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

The cemetery was first established in 1719 in the British colonial Province of Maryland as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church within the Rock Creek Parish.

The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has several notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones.

The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White.

Adams Memorial , designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens as a gravestone for Marian Hooper Adams , a Washington, D.C. socialite who committed suicide in 1885. A replica sits in the National Portrait Gallery .
The mausoleum's interior at Rock Creek Cemetery
Gravesite of inventor Emile Berliner and his family members
Gravesite of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , an editor of National Geographic
Gravesite of Oliver Hudson Kelley , who founded the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Gravesite of George Washington Riggs
Gravesite of Upton Sinclair
Gravesite of Charles Doolittle Walcott
Grave of Burton K. Wheeler