Plan for Glen Haven Memorial Park, San Fernando, circa 1940

Item Overview

Title

Plan for Glen Haven Memorial Park, San Fernando, circa 1940

Alternative title

Glen Haven Memorial Park

Date Created

[circa 1940]

Date

1940

Language

English

Collection

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Notes

Description

Park is now (2012) called Glen Haven & Sholom Memorial Park. The Park offers graves, crypts, niches, above and below ground, scattering garden, and private gardens in a grassy space in the Los Angeles National Forest between Kagel and Lopez Canyons in the San Gabriel Mountains. Plan includes a sketch of the park and a road map showing its location

Caption

Schedule of Buildings: 1. singing tower 2. chapel 3. administration 4. gate 5. chapel 6. mausoleum 7. pantheon 8. fountain pool 9. sunrise tower 10. group memorial 11. columbarium 12. the exedra 13. memorial 14. statue of youth 15. the temple 16. memorial 17. soldiers and sailors memorial 18. fountain 19. chapel, receiving vault and crematory 20. bird sanctuary
Glen Haven Memorial Park, Kagel and Lopez Canyons, Los Angeles, California; Scale in Feet; Ralph D. Cornell - F.A.S.L.A., Landscape Architect; Plan: 686-1
Labels on plan: bird sanctuary, parking, pool, heartland, key map

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Dimensions

8 x 10 inches

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

black-and-white photographs
landscaping plans

Location

California--San Fernando

Longitude

34.309022646953274

Latitude

-118.3762264251709

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Environment
memorials
parks
San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.)
fountains
columbaria (cemeteries)
bird sanctuaries
pools
pantheons
crematories
parking lots
mausoleums
Culture
funeral chapels
gates
Glen Haven & Sholom Memorial Park (San Fernando, Calif.)
memorial parks
exedrae (site elements)
canyons
paths

landscape architecture