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Aug 21, 2007 9:45 am US/Eastern

Leona Helmsley To Be Buried In Sleepy Hollow

Helmsley's Mausoleum Cost $1.4 Million, Resembles A Greek Temple

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ― Even in death Leona Helmsley will have some impressive real estate. Her burial will be in a mausoleum at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Frank Drahos - a groundskeeper at the cemetery for 49 years - tells the Journal News he yesterday cleaned around the 13-hundred square foot burial site, that contains her husband Harry. The mausoleum overlooks the Pocantico River and the Rockefeller estate.

The 87-year-old Helmsley died yesterday at her home in Greenwich, Connecticut.

There are 42-thousand people buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery including Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler and many common folk who lived along the waterfront.

Helmsley's mausoleum built in 2005 - cost $1.4 million and resembles a Greek temple. Its 12 columns are accompanied by three stained-glass windows of the New York City skyline. There are some boxwood trees, a Japanese maple and a winding walkway.

In 2005, Helmsley decided to relocate the remains of her husband, Harry Helmsley, from Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx because she wanted a more secluded resting place. She needed special building permits because of the mausoleum's size.

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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