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Chauncey Mausoleum Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, New York Multi-crocketed Gothic spires reach toward the heavens in what appears to be a boarded up fairy tale castle. The Chauncey family mausoleum, also known as the “Prisoner’s Vault” is thought to have been constructed by inmates confined at Sing Sing Penitentiary. By the 1860’s Green-Wood Cemetery had become the place for prominent New Yorkers to be buried. A 1866 New York Times Article observed, “It is the ambition of every New Yorker to live on Fifth Ave., take his airings in the [Central] Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood”.