Lake View Cemetery (Seattle)

Lake View Cemetery
Lake View Cemetery
	Nisei War Memorial, Lake View Cemetery
Details
Established	1872
Location	Seattle, Washington
Country	United States
Type	Public
Size	40 Acres
No. of graves	40,000

Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park. It is named for its view of Lake Washington to the east. It was founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery.

Notable interments

Princess Angeline - daughter of Chief Seattle
Beriah Brown - Mayor of Seattle
Gottlieb Burian - founder of the city of Burien, Washington
Denny Party members (Seattle pioneers), including:
William Grose - second black resident of Seattle
Granville O. Haller - Noted businessman and military officer
Thaddeus Hanford - Seattle newspaper editor
Bruce Lee - martial artist and actor
Brandon Lee - actor; son of Bruce Lee
Denise Levertov - poet
Eugene McAllaster - naval architect; designer of the fireboat Duwamish
John W. Nordstrom - founder of Nordstrom
Guy Carleton Phinney - developer whose land became the Woodland Park
A. W. Piper - pioneer, baker, socialist Seattle City Council member, eponym of Pipers Creek and Piper Orchard
Cordelia Wilson - American Southwest painter

The cemetery contains the Nisei War Memorial Monument, dedicated in 1949 to Japanese American veterans, some of whom are buried there.

Just north of the cemetery is Seattle's Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery.