Location

Located at 4001 Kennedy Boulevard, the Bergen Crest Mausoleum is in town of North Bergen, New Jersey

North Bergen, New Jersey

North Bergen is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2010 Census, the township had a total population of 60,773. Originally founded in 1843, the town was much diminished in territory by a series of secessions. Situated on the Hudson Palisades, it is one...

 and is adjacent to the Garden State Crematory

Garden State Crematory

Garden State Crematory is located at 4101 Kennedy Boulevard in North Bergen, New Jersey. The back of the building overlooks the Weehawken Cemetery and it is adjacent to the Bergen Crest Mausoleum.-History:...

. Along the boulevard is the Grove Church Cemetery

Grove Church Cemetery

The Grove Church Cemetery is a nonsectarian cemetery, located on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades, along with several other cemeteries in a string of green open space, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The Grove Church, who owns the cemetery, is one of the oldest religious...

 and Flower Hill Cemetery

Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen

Flower Hill Cemetery is located in North Bergen, New Jersey. It is cojoined with Hoboken Cemetery and Machpelah Cemetery.-Notable burials:*Ed Alberian children's television actor and entertainer...

, as well as Schuetzen Park

Schuetzen Park

Schuetzen Park is a privately owned park in North Bergen, New Jersey, USA that has existed since 1874 and is located on the ridge of the Hudson Palisades at Kennedy Boulevard and Bergen Turnpike just north of the Marginal Highway...

. It is roughly 33000 square foot and the entire property is roughly 0.75 acres (3,035.1 m²).

History

On March 27th, 1917, plans were approved for the construction of a community mausoleum in North Bergen,
Under the New York & New Jersey Mausoleum Association, the two-story granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 and reinforced concrete building was estimated costing $150,000 and was designed by the architect Charles Fall, of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company

Hoboken Land and Improvement Company Building

The Hoboken Land and Improvement Company Building, is located in Hoboken, New Jersey. The building was designed by Charles Fall and was built by Myles Tierney in 1889. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1979. The building housed the offices of the Steven's...

. The mausoleum takes it name from its position on Bergen Hill

Bergen Hill

Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, USA, where they emerge on Bergen Neck, which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson River, and their bays. In Hudson County, it reaches a height of 260 feet.-Rail:...

 at the edge of the Hudson Palisades where they begin their descent to the west, overlooking Weehawken Cemetery

Weehawken Cemetery

The Weehawken Cemetery, like neighboring Hoboken Cemetery, is not located in its namesake town of Weehawken but rather on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey, with its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike. At its east side the cemetery is overlooked by the Bergen Crest...

 and Palisades Cemetery

Palisades Cemetery

The Palisades Cemetery is located on the cuesta, or descending ridge of the Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey. Its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike and Union Turnpike. It is adjacent to the Weehawken Cemetery and is one of a several on the westen slope of North Hudson County....

.

Reported in the American Mercury journal and in the New York Times, on July 3rd, 1929 a crowd estimated to be between 10,000 to 12,000 people traveling from over northern New Jersey and New York had gathered around the mausoleum in awe at the "faintly shadowed likeness of the head of Christ which was discovered on the whitish gray stone front of the building". Policemen were dispatched to keep the crowd in order and off of the lawn as they looked on curiously. Some considered it to be a miracle, while others viewed it simply as weather markings.

External links

• Find a Grave at Bergen Crest Mausoleum