used to carry mourners to funerals, in specially rented funeral cars. As a result, there was an entry through the east wall, which has since been closed. When founded, the cemetery was well outside the city limits of Chicago. After the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, Lincoln Park, which had been the city's cemetery, was deconsecrated and some of the bodies were reinterred to Graceland Cemetery. The edge of the pond around Daniel Burnham's burial island was once lined with broken headstones and coping transported from Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park was redeveloped as a recreational area. A single mausoleum remains, the "Couch tomb", containing the remains of Ira Couch. The Couch Tomb is probably the oldest extant structure in the city, everything else having been destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. The cemetery's walls are topped off with wrought iron spear point fencing. Notable tombs and monuments Many of the cemetery's tombs are of great architectural or artistic interest, including the Getty Tomb, the Martin Ryerson Mausoleum (both designed by architect Louis Sullivan, who is also buried in the cemetery), and the Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum. The industrialist George Pullman was buried at night, in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault, to prevent his body from being exhumed and desecrated by labor activists. William Hulbert, the first president of the National League, has a monument in the shape of a baseball with the names of the original National League cities on it. Along with its other famous burials, the cemetery is notable for two statues by the renowned Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft, Eternal Silence for the Graves family plot and The Crusader that marks Victor Lawson's final resting place. The cemetery is also the final resting place of 31 victims of the Iroquois Theatre fire, in which more than 600 people died. Notable burials David Adler, architect Walter Webb Allport, dentist John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois Amabel Anderson Arnold, organized the Woman's State Bar Association of Missouri, the first association of women lawyers in the world Philip Danforth Armour, meat packing magnate Ernie Banks, Chicago Cubs Hall of Fame baseball player Frederic Clay Bartlett, artist, art collector Granville Bates, American actor Mary Hastings Bradley, author Lorenz Brentano, member of the State House of Representatives, United States consul at Dresden, Congressional Representative for Illinois Doug Buffone, Chicago Bears former linebacker, host WSCR Daniel H. Burnham, architect Fred A.