Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)

The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum and receiving vault, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and Liberty Hyde Bailey.^[1]

Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery.^[2] In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment.^[2] The cemetery is currently in operation, selling burial lots and providing burial services.^[3]

Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members.

• Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer
• Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator
• Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860–1946), American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister
• Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902), American Civil War nurse
• John "Honest John" Clapp (1851–1904), early American baseball player and manager
• Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878–1948), American football player and record-setting coach
• Estevan Antonio Fuertes (1838–1903), Cornell astronomer and namesake of Fuertes Observatory
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator and artist
• James R. Houck (1940–2015), pioneer of infrared observational astronomy
• William Henry Miller (1848–1922), American architect
• Chester Platt (1857–1934), inventor and publisher^[4]
• Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer
• Trevor Pinch (1952-2021), British sociologist and an originator of the theory of Social Construction of Technology.