CLEVELAND, Ohio – If you want to visit The James A. Garfield Memorial in Lake View Cemetery, get there before 4 p.m., Sunday, June 18. When the monument closes that evening, it will remain closed until spring 2024. That’s because the third and final phase of the tower’s renovations begin Monday, June 19.
The Garfield Memorial, which looks like a small castle rising from a hill in the 154-year-old Lake View Cemetery, is on the edge of Cleveland’s Little Italy neighborhood. A circular tower, built of Ohio sandstone in 1890, rises 180 feet from a stone terrace.