Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island

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Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island is a historic, park-like rural cemetery noted for its picturesque grounds and as the final resting place of numerous prominent figures, including writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic site
rural cemetery
country United States of America
establishedAs rural cemetery
foundedIn 1846
hasCulturalSignificance important site in H. P. Lovecraft fandom and tourism
hasDesignation historic cemetery
hasFeature family burial lots
mature trees
monumental sculpture
winding drives
hasLandscapeStyle garden cemetery
picturesque
hasNotableBurial Ambrose Burnside
Charles R. Brayton NERFINISHED
Edward Carrington
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
H. P. Lovecraft
Henry B. Anthony NERFINISHED
Henry Lippitt
Henry Wheaton
Horace Mann
John Chafee
John Hay
John R. Bartlett
Levi P. Morton
Nelson W. Aldrich
Nicholas Brown Jr.
Robert Latham Owen
surface form: Robert L. Owen

Rowland G. Hazard
Sarah Helen Whitman
Stephen Hopkins
Theodore Francis Green
Thomas A. Doyle
William Sprague IV
knownFor burial place of prominent Rhode Islanders
grave of H. P. Lovecraft
park-like landscape
picturesque grounds
locatedIn New England
Providence County, Rhode Island
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
surface form: Providence, Rhode Island

Rhode Island
locatedOn east bank of the Seekonk River
openTo the public
operatedBy Swan Point Cemetery
surface form: Swan Point Cemetery Company
partOf historic rural cemetery movement in the United States
usedFor burials
commemoration
memorialization

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H. P. Lovecraft burialPlace Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
Maud Howe Elliott burialPlace Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island
this entity surface form: Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island, United States