Mount Auburn Cemetery

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arboretum cemetery garden cemetery rural cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic garden cemetery and arboretum renowned as one of the first rural cemeteries in the United States and a significant cultural and natural landmark.

Aliases (3)

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	arboretum → cemetery → garden cemetery → rural cemetery →
architect	Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn →
area	about 175 acres →
burialPlaceOf	B. F. Skinner → Charles Sumner → Dorothea Dix → Edwin Booth → Fannie Farmer → Harriet Jacobs → Henry Wadsworth Longfellow → Julia Ward Howe → Louis Agassiz → Mary Baker Eddy → Nathaniel Bowditch → Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. → Winslow Homer →
contains	Bigelow Chapel → Halcyon Lake → Story Chapel → Washington Tower → Willow Pond → numerous walking paths and avenues →
country	United States →
designation	active burial ground →
establishedBy	Massachusetts Horticultural Society →
founder	Jacob Bigelow →
governingBody	Mount Auburn Cemetery Corporation →
hasFunction	arboretum → cemetery → public garden →
heritageDesignation	National Historic Landmark →
heritageDesignationDate	2003 →
landscapeStyle	gardenesque → picturesque →
locatedIn	Cambridge, Massachusetts → Watertown, Massachusetts →
near	Boston, Massachusetts → Charles River →
notableFor	birdwatching opportunities → combination of burial ground and landscaped garden → ornamental plantings and specimen trees → scenic views of Boston →
openingDate	1831 →
region	New England →
significance	first large-scale rural cemetery in the United States → prototype for American garden cemeteries →
state	Massachusetts →
website	https://mountauburn.org/ →

Referenced by (41)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abbott Lawrence → Charles Appleton Longfellow → Charles W. Eliot ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Curt Gowdy ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Edward Everett → Edwin Booth ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Felix Frankfurter → Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn → Henry Lee Higginson → Ise Gropius ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts") → Mary Baker Eddy ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Nathaniel Bowditch → Phillips Brooks → Samuel Gridley Howe ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Wallace Clement Sabine → William Barton Rogers →	burialPlace
Bigelow Chapel → Halcyon Lake → Story Chapel → Story Chapel →	locatedIn
Dorothea Dix → Frances Appleton → Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. → Roscoe Pound →	placeOfBurial
Charles Sumner → Elliot Richardson → Louis Agassiz ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts") →	buriedAt
Francis Parkman → Henry Cabot Lodge ("Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States") → Richard Olney →	buriedIn
Forest Hills Cemetery → Green-Wood Cemetery →	inspiredBy
Bigelow Chapel → Story Chapel →	partOf
Story family →	associatedWith
Mount Auburn Cemetery ("Mount Auburn Cemetery Corporation") →	governingBody
Cambridge, Massachusetts →	hasLandmark
Thomas Ball →	hasWorkInCollection
Bigelow Chapel →	locatedInCemetery
Halcyon Lake →	locatedInProtectedArea
Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine, United States →	modeledAfter