Established in 1930 by Dennis T. Peters, Earl McBride, Raymond Book, and Paul Ludt, Forest Lawn Memorial Park exemplifies the work of Cleveland architect Munroe Copper, Jr. and landscape architects William Pitkin, Jr. and Seward Mott. As one of Ohio’s earliest cemeteries to use flush markers exclusively for grave sites, it is significant in landscape architecture as an excellent national representative of the trend toward memorial parks that grew out of lawn-park cemeteries in the early twentieth century. Its large trees, peaceful sprawling landscape, and other features contribute to a park-like atmosphere. The early twentieth-century memorial park cemetery also changed burial practices for decades. Hubert Eaton of Los Angeles, California, wrote in The Builder’s Creed, “I shall endeavor to build Forest Lawn as different... a great park. Devoid of misshapen monuments and other customary signs of earthly death, but filled with towering trees, sweeping lawns, splashing fountains, singing birds, beautiful statuary, cheerful flowers, [etc].” Los Angeles’s Forest Lawn became the benchmark for the new memorial park and inspired countless cemetery developers across the United States, including Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Boardman Township, Ohio.