Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, North Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York
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The William Rockefeller Mausoleum in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, built by The Presbrey-Leland Company contains 11,000 feet of stone weighing over 881 tons, with a granite walk containing over 36 tons of stone. With blocks up to 16 inches thick, elaborately detailed on the inside in polished granite, the mausoleum has room for 20 bodies, including two large crypts in the center for Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller. Construction of the mausoleum in 1922 cost about a quarter million dollars, and was noted for the day when a thirty-two ton block of granite, thirty by fifteen feet was towed through the streets of North Tarrytown up into the cemetery.
