Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is an 86 acre cemetery with a natural rolling landscape that is located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is adjacent to the historic Soldiers Home.
Established in 1719, Rock Creek was designed as part of the rural garden style to function as both cemetery and public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish.
Rock Creek Cemetery's park-like setting has many notable mausoleums and tombstones. The most well-known, but sometimes mistakenly referred to as Grief, is Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White's Adams Memorial, a contemplative androgynous bronze sculpture that marks the graves of Clover Hooper Adams and her husband, Henry Adams. The sculptor had called it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.
Other notable memorials include the Frederic Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument, known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.
On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and adjacent church grounds were placed on the National Register of Historic Places.