Professional Practice
Landscape Master Plan for Historic Crown Hill Cemetery and Arboretum
Date: 9/3/2025 - 10/15/2025
Description:
Crown Hill Cemetery and Arboretum is both a National Register-listed historic landscape and an ArbNet-accredited Level II Arboretum. The Cemetery is also an active interment site, providing burial, cremation, and funeral home services through a management agreement with Service Corporation International, Inc. (SCI, Inc). Crown Hill is soliciting qualifications and proposals from qualified landscape architecture, planning, and/or design firms for services to develop a landscape master plan for this historic cemetery.
Crown Hill intends to work with the selected firm over 9-12 months to document the historic character of the cemetery landscape; assess its existing conditions, use, and management; and consider current trends in funeral practices as a basis for creating a visionary and achievable master plan and land use plan. In providing principles and guidelines for preservation, management, and future development, the master plan will consider both the historic and arboreal character that makes the cemetery a special place and the physical, spatial, and economic requirements for interment practices that make the provision of burial services financially viable. The plan will therefore not only address the preservation and enhancement of existing and historic structures, plots, roads, trees, plantings, and other features, but also land use changes, section burial layout, and elements for current and future interment needs.