Ireland Street Cemetery


  • Address: Ireland St
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Site

To Elijah Phelps (ca 1761-1842) are attributed two marble stones: Thomas Halbert, 1778, and Margaret Halbert, 1780 and the lost Theodate Phelps stone, for which a date was not found in the 1940s DAR inventory. Biographical information on Phelps begins with his father, Nathaniel Phelps (1721-1789), who was a stonecutter in Northampton, Massachusetts. Two of Nathaniel's three sons, Elijah and Rufus, became stonecutters. Rufus remained in Northampton for his entire career, but towards the end of the Revolutionary War, Elijah moved the center of his activity from Northampton to Berkshire County, where marble quarries were plentiful. There he is thought to have lived in Lanesboro, working for the stone carver Caleb Smith. Phelps initialed two stones, Sarah Smith, 1779, and Elisabeth Garlick, 1783, in Lanesboro and Hoosick, New York. From these two stones are traced the later work that makes up his catalogue. Although the Halbert stones are of different sizes, they are clearly from the same hand. Central to the arch of each of the tabernacle-shaped stones is a soul effigy or cherub with widespread wings. Lettering style is identical as well. The Theodate Phelps stone, noted as being partially underground in 1940, is now lost. - NRHP 14 May 2009


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Particulars for Ireland Street Cemetery:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Historic Use Cemetery
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Religion
Sight Category Site



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 09000471
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Phelps, Elijah; et al.
Architectural Style: No style listed
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Art, Community Planning and Development, Religion
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery
Current Function: Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery

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