The Old Town Cemetery is located in the city of Newburgh, New York, behind Calvary Presbyterian Church on South Street. It was established in 1713 by Palatine German refugees from the Rhineland-Palati
The Robinson Mausoleum at the cemetery, possibly designed by Alexander Jackson Davis
Robinson Mausoleum
The Dutch Reformed Church is one of the most prominent architectural landmarks in Newburgh, New York. It was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1835 in the Greek Revival style just after the disso
Old Town Cemetery (Newburgh, New York)
…Robinson Benkard is architecturally distinctive. It was built in 1853, possibly by Alexander Jackson Davis, whose most notable work in Newburgh, the Dutch Reformed Church, stands a few blocks away. It is believed to be the only Egyptian Revival tomb to feature both a mastaba and a pyramid. It was overgrown and fell into…
The church in late 2006, with all four columns restored
An 1842 woodcut of Newburgh showing how the church (top, right) dominated the city's skyline during that time period.
Davis based the design on Town & Davis' recent Church of the French Protestants (1832) in New York
Damage from the 1950 hurricane