Richard Upjohn

One of the most rewarding aspects of our Civil War Project has been the information we have gotten from descendants of Civil War veterans who are interred at Green-Wood. Sometimes they contact us with bare bones information: my great grandfathers name is ---- and he served in the Civil War. Can you help me find him? Other times pension records and photographs follow.

Richard Upjohn was a pioneering American architect. In the 1840's, he designed Trinity Church, which stands at Broadway and Wall Street, . He was the first president of the American Institute of Architects.

Green-Wood Cemetery's main entrance, at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue, is adorned by spectacular brownstone arches. Designed by Richard Upjohn (the architect of Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street in Manhattan and the first president of the American Institute of Architects) and his son, Richard M.