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Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. This 174 acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as a fine arboretum. It is located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Brattle Streets near Fresh Pond at the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and the eastern end of Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, and is adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 1032 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. Miscellaneous view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 1032 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. Miscellaneous view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1058 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. Miscellaneous view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1058 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. Miscellaneous view. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 978 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. View looking down on the Hunnewell family obelisk. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 978 KB) Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA, USA. View looking down on the Hunnewell family obelisk. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1760x1168, 488 KB)A statue in the Mount Auburn Cemetary. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1760x1168, 488 KB)A statue in the Mount Auburn Cemetary. ... In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... A hectare (symbol ha) is a unit of area, equal to 10,000 square meters, commonly used for measuring land area. ... An arboretum is a botanical garden primarily devoted to trees and other woody plants, forming a living collection of trees intended at least partly for scientific study. ... General plan for Fresh Pond Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm, 1897. ... Cambridge City Hall Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... Seal of Watertown, MA Browne House. ...

To grasp the importance of Mt. Auburn Cemetery one must realize that when it was formed in 1831 no space combining burials with rugged terrain and picturesque landscaping existed in the United States or in Europe. -- Old Cambridge ISBN 0262530147, p. 69.

Mount Auburn Cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and was itself an inspiration to cemetery designers, most notably at Abney Park in London. Mount Auburn Cemetery is credited as the beginning of the American public parks and gardens movement. It set the style for other suburban American cemeteries such as Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia, 1836), Greenwood Cemetery (Brooklyn, 1838), Albany Rural Cemetery (Menands, New York, 1844) and Forest Hills Cemetery (Jamaica Plain, 1848). It can be considered as the link between Capability Brown's English landscape gardens, and Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park in New York (1850s). Looking down the hill at the Père-Lachaise cemetery The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Abney Park Cemetery—every turn of the path reveals a new and unique landscape (September 2005). ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Laurel Hill Cemetery is the second major rural garden cemetery in the United States and one of the few National Historic Landmark cemeteries in the country. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Chapel in Green-Wood Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park. ... Main article: New York City A map of New York City, highlighting Brooklyn. ... The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844 in Menands, New York, just outside of the city of Albany, New York. ... Menands is a village located in Albany County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 3,910. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Forest Hills Cemetery (1848) in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (formerly in the city of Roxbury, now in the city of Boston) is an early suburban garden cemetery inspired by the Mount Auburn Cemetery. ... Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. ... The term landscape garden is often used to describe the English garden design style characteristic of the eighteenth century, particularly with the work of Lancelot Capability Brown. ... Frederick Law Olmsted, oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City, the countrys oldest coordinated... Central Park (, ) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ...


Mount Auburn is well known for its tranquil atmosphere and accepting attitude towards death. Many of the more traditional monuments feature poppy flowers, symbols of blissful sleep. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Papaveraceae. ...


More than 80,000 persons are buried in the cemetery, and number of historically significant people have been interred here over the last 175 years, particularly members of the Boston Brahmins and the Boston elite associated with Harvard University as well as a number of prominent Unitarians. However, the cemetery is nondenominational and continues to make space available for new plots. The area is well known for its beautiful environs and is a favorite location for Cambridge bird-watchers. Guided tours of the cemetery's historic, artistic, and horticultural points of interest are also available. Boston Brahmins, or simply Brahmins—sometimes also called the First Families of Boston—are a blue-blooded class of New Englanders who claim hereditary or cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and originally settled New England. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...


Mount Auburn's superb collection of over 5,500 trees includes nearly 700 species and varieties. Thousands of very well-kept shrubs and herbaceous plants weave through the cemetery's hills, ponds, woodlands, and clearings. The cemetery contains more than 10 miles (17 km) of roads and many paths. Landscaping styles range from Victorian-era plantings to contemporary gardens, from natural woodlands to formal ornamental gardens, and from sweeping vistas through majestic trees to small enclosed spaces. Many trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plans are tagged with botanic labels containing their scientific and common names.


Notable burials

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807-December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. ... Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (nee Cary) (1822 - 1907) was a U.S. educator. ... Photo of Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 – June 7, 1893), born near Bel Air, Maryland, was a famous 19th century American actor. ... Memorial statue for Nathaniel Bowditch, in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835 - January 23, 1893), was a noted United States clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. ... William Brewster (July 5, 1851 - 1919) was an American ornithologist. ... The Massachusetts State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch and completed in 1798. ... George Cabot (December 3, 1752-April 18, 1823), a Delegate and a Senator from Massachusetts, and the Presiding Officer of the Hartford Convention, was born in Salem, Massachusetts. ... Navy collection image of Crowninshield Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (December 27, 1772–February 3, 1851) served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. ... Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 _ February 18, 1876), was an American stage actress. ... Dorothea Dix Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) (not to be confused with the journalist Dorothy Dix) was a tireless social activist who, from the early 1840s to well after the American Civil War, drew on the most advanced 19th-century ideas about psychiatric treatment to successfully... Mary Baker Eddy Mary Morse Baker, better known as Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 - December 3, 1910) founded the Church of Christ, Scientist in 1879. ... Shadowgraph of a . ... Prof. ... Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) was an American culinary expert whose book, The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, became a widely used culinary text. ... Justice Frankfurter Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. ... In the U.S. postage stamp commemorating Buckminster Fuller and his contributions to architecture and science, some of his inventions are visible. ... Isabella Stewart Gardner was a woman who would be termed fag hag, in todays contemporary terminolgy. ... Charles Dana Gibson (September 14, 1867 _ December 23, 1944) was an American graphic artist, noted for his creation of one of the first pin-up girls, the Gibson Girl. Woman Jurors by Charles Dana Gibson, 1902 He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. ... Horatio Greenough (September 6, 1805 - December 18, 1852) was an American sculptor. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ... Winslow Homer Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter. ... Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. ... Edwin Herbert Land (May 12, 1906 â€“ March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. ... Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792–August 18, 1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. ... Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924), was a Republican statesman and noted historian. ... Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet who wrote many works that are still famous today, including The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride and Evangeline. ... Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ... James Russell Lowell circa 1855. ... Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American writer born in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family. ... Jules Marcou (April 20, 1824 - April 17, 1898), an eminent Swiss-American geologist, was born at Salins, in the départment of Jura, in France. ... The brothers Charles Benjamin Norton, Frank Henry Norton, and Charles Eliot Norton, between 1853-1855. ... Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. ... The Owen figure-skating family consisted of Guy Owen, a Canadian, his American wife Maribel Vinson, and their two American-born daughters, all of whom were figure skating champions. ... Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 - July 1, 1864) was a U.S. educator and political figure. ... John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples. ... Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18, 1990) was an American film actress. ... Burrhus Frederic Skinner Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist and author. ... Robert Gould Shaw Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863), was the white colonel in command of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which entered the American Civil War in 1863. ... Charles Sumner Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811–March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. ... Frank William Taussig (1859 - 1940) was a U.S. economist and educator. ... Robert Charles Winthrop Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809–November 16, 1894) was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. ...

See also

// Arkansas Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock - known as Westminster Abbey of Arkansas; California Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles; Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles; Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles; Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma is the burial site of William Randolph Hearst and other members of the Hearst family... This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ... This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America. ...

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Mount Auburn Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (561 words)
It is located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Brattle Streets near Fresh Pond at the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and the eastern end of Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, and is adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery.
Mount Auburn Cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, and was itself an inspiration to cemetery designers, most notably at Abney Park in London.
Mount Auburn is well known for its tranquil atmosphere and accepting attitude towards death.
Mt. Auburn Cemetery Reception House Landmark Report (5737 words)
Mount Auburn Street marks the boundary of Cambridge and Watertown, and all but the northeastern corner of the Mount Auburn Cemetery, which is directly south of the Reception House, is in Watertown.
Mount Auburn Street is a major arterial roadway, heavily trafficked as a connector from western suburbs to Cambridge and Storrow and Memorial Drives.
Mount Auburn Cemetery was established in reaction to the crowded, unhealthy city cemeteries that were common in the United States in the early 19th century.
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