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'''Odd Fellows Cemetery''' was a 32 acre [[cemetery]] located North and South of Diamond Street and between 22nd and 25th Street<ref>{{cite news |title=Odd Fellows' Cemetery – Closing and Re-interment at Lawnview |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27512372/odd-fellows-cemetery-closing-and/ |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=5 January 1951 |page=44 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> in the [[North Philadelphia West]] neighborhood of | '''Odd Fellows Cemetery''' was a 32 acre [[cemetery]] located North and South of Diamond Street and between 22nd and 25th Street<ref>{{cite news |title=Odd Fellows' Cemetery – Closing and Re-interment at Lawnview |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27512372/odd-fellows-cemetery-closing-and/ |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=5 January 1951 |page=44 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> in the [[North Philadelphia West]] neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1849 by the [[Odd Fellows]] fraternal organization for the burial of their members. The eighty-one foot high, brown stone, [[Egyptian Revival architecture|Egyptian Revival]] gatehouse was designed by architects [[Stephen Decatur Button]] and [[Joseph C. Hoxie]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=R.A. |title=Philadelphia as it is in 1852 |date=1852 |publisher=Lindsay & Blakiston |location=Philadelphia |pages=355–357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wR0WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA355 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> | ||
The Odd Fellows Cemetery was located a short distance from [[Glenwood Memorial Gardens|Old Glenwood Cemetery]] and adjoined the smaller [[Order of United American Mechanics|United American Mechanics']] Cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |title=United States Congressional Serial Set, Volume 1479 |date=1872 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylBHAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA28-PA12 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> | The Odd Fellows Cemetery was located a short distance from [[Glenwood Memorial Gardens|Old Glenwood Cemetery]] and adjoined the smaller [[Order of United American Mechanics|United American Mechanics']] Cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |title=United States Congressional Serial Set, Volume 1479 |date=1872 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylBHAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA28-PA12 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> | ||