Oakwood Cemetery Annex
1601 Comal St., Austin, TXThe Oakwood Cemetery Annex is significant as a cemetery with distinct design features in the areas of art and landscape architecture.
Oakwood Cemetery Annex is in east Austin, just east of the original Oakwood Cemetery. The City of Austin purchased the Oakwood Cemetery Annex land from various property owners in 1915. The 18.8-acre Annex provided additional grave spaces for Oakwood Cemetery. The Annex is within the area designated in the Historic Resources of East Austin Multiple Property Submission, with associated properties nominated to the National Register since 1985. The Historic Resources of East Austin area includes Oakwood Cemetery (started in 1839), Texas State Cemetery (started in 1851), the historic Swedish Hill neighborhood and district, the Willow-Spence Streets Historic District, and the Rainey Street Historic District. The Annex is laid out in a curvilinear roadway design, directly influenced by the 'rural' cemetery and City Beautiful movements of the 1800s. With continuous interments since 1915, the Annex has more than 13,000 burials including a large Hispanic section and infant section, as well as a number of prominent Austin citizens. The cemetery meets National Register Criterion C, and Criterion Consideration D at the local level of significance as a cemetery with distinct design features in the areas of art and landscape architecture for the final resting place for a significant group of distinguished citizens.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
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.