Louisville Crematorium Custodial Storage in Louisville, Kentucky

About

Get directions Lutz Hall, University of Louisville Department of Anthropology
Louisville, Kentucky 40292 United States

Coordinates: 38.21492, -85.75833
Cemetery ID:

Members have Contributed

About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

Photos

5 open photo requests.

Eastern Cemetery and its crematory and columbariums were closed in 1989 due to gross mismanagement. Cremated remains in the columbarium were removed from the building and are in the permanent custody of the University of Louisville Department of Anthropology.

The Eastern Cemetery Company of Louisville constructed the first cremation chamber in the state of Kentucky in 1937, located on Baxter Avenue, Louisville. Locally known as the Louisville Crematorium, the facilities moved in 1957 to a new building constructed in the northeast corner of Eastern Cemetery. This modern building contained a chapel, two columbarium wings and cremation chambers in the basement. In 2006 the now-empty building was permanently sealed and is no longer in use or accessible.