Riverside Cemetery
a.k.a. 5AM125
5201 Brighton Blvd., Denver, CORiverside Cemetery is eligible for the National Register under criteria consideration D and criterion A for its association with the social history of Denver. The cemetery was for many years the primary burial location for the growing city and served as the final resting place for the prominent and influential, the unknown and unwanted, and all those in between. The cemetery is eligible under criterion C in the area of landscape architecture for its association with the 19th-century movement toward the creation of landscaped rural-type cemeteries. Riverside was the first Denver area cemetery to employ these design characteristics. Riverside also contains a representative collection of popular funerary art forms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Riverside Cemetery is eligible under criterion D for its potential to yield information regarding the social history of Denver.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.