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Small armies of landscapers tend to lush grass and rolling hills, where private roads with names like “Memory Lane” and “Baby Land” lead upward past maximalist mausoleums, columbaria and replica Renaissance statuary.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2023

Last year the cemetery opened a new 27-acre section capable of holding about 27,000 remains in specially built close-packed, pre-dug graves and a new niche wall and columbaria.

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2019

The 16,000 spaces in the new niche wall and columbaria are waiting.

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2018

Singapore prefers columbaria, in which urns of cremated remains are stored in cavities on a wall.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

This morning got up at half-past six, and went to look out for some columbaria I had heard of out of the Porta Pia, and near Santa Agnese.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry