Babe Ruth gravesite: Section 25, Plot 1115, Graves 3 & 4.The new indoor building of
Our Lady Queen of Peace MausoleumGarden Mausoleum with
Saint Francis of Assisi Chapel in the background
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of
New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in
Hawthorne,
Westchester County,
New York, as a
Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player
Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal
Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by many baseballs, bats and caps. Adjacent to the Garden
Mausoleum is a small train station of the
Metro-North Railroad Harlem Division named
Mount Pleasant, where four trains stop daily, two northbound and two southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.
Notable interments
Robert Abplanalp (1922–2003), inventor of the aerosol spray valve
Hector Guimard (1867–1942), French architect and most prominent representative of the Art Nouveau movement in France
Ernest E. L. Hammer, Administrator of the Bronx, Supreme Court Justice of the State of New York, presided over Bruno Hauptman trial for extradition in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Babe Ruth gravesite: Section 25, Plot 1115, Graves 3 & 4.The new indoor building of
Our Lady Queen of Peace MausoleumGarden Mausoleum with
Saint Francis of Assisi Chapel in the background
Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of
New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in
Hawthorne,
Westchester County,
New York, as a
Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player
Babe Ruth, whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal
Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by many baseballs, bats and caps. Adjacent to the Garden
Mausoleum is a small train station of the
Metro-North Railroad Harlem Division named
Mount Pleasant, where four trains stop daily, two northbound and two southbound. Several baseball players are buried here.
Notable interments
Robert Abplanalp (1922–2003), inventor of the aerosol spray valve
Hector Guimard (1867–1942), French architect and most prominent representative of the Art Nouveau movement in France
Ernest E. L. Hammer, Administrator of the Bronx, Supreme Court Justice of the State of New York, presided over Bruno Hauptman trial for extradition in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping