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Oakdale Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
2017
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Location	N. & S. sides of 6th Ave., W., W. of Valley St., Hendersonville, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°19′11″N 82°28′27″W / 35.31972°N 82.47417°W / 35.31972; -82.47417
Area	22 acres (8.9 ha)
Built	1885 (1885)
Built by	White, W. T.; Maunder and Campbell
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Neoclassical
NRHP reference No.	13001158
Added to NRHP	February 5, 2014

Oakdale Cemetery is a historic city cemetery and national historic district located at Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina. It was established in 1885, and has approximately 5,400 burials. The property includes the original 1885 white section and 1885 African American section, along with a number of additions made into the 1950s. It includes a section for Agudas Israel Synagogue - Hendersonville's sole Jewish congregation. Historic contributing resources include the cemetery, a frame, octagonal pavilion dating from the turn of the 20th century; a 20th-century, rectangular brick mausoleum with a flat roof and terra cotta coping; a large Neoclassical concrete mausoleum, built in 1951; and a 1950s maintenance building. It includes the Italian marble angel statue which served as the inspiration for Thomas Wolfe's first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

Gallery

• Pavillion, 2017
• Statue that served as the inspiration of Look Homeward, Angel, 2017
• 2017

References

1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/03/14 through 2/07/14. National Park Service. February 14, 2014.
2. Jason L. Harpe (September 2013). "Oakdale Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.

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