Mount Auburn Cemetery

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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.

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instanceOf arboretum
cemetery
garden cemetery
rural cemetery
architect Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
area about 175 acres
burialPlaceOf B. F. Skinner (born Burrhus Frederic Skinner)
surface form: B. F. Skinner

Edward Everett
surface form: 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
High Rock Tower
surface form: Washington Tower

Halcyon Lake
surface form: Willow Pond

numerous walking paths and avenues
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designation active burial ground
establishedBy Massachusetts Horticultural Society
founder Jacob Bigelow
governingBody Mount Auburn Cemetery self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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/

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Moorfield Storey burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
James R. Osgood burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Patrick Tracy Jackson burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Frances Appleton Longfellow burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Thomas Gold Appleton burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
MBTA bus route 71 hasStopNear Mount Auburn Cemetery
Wesley A. Clark burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Lincoln Kirstein burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Amy Lowell burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Anson Burlingame burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Nathan Appleton burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
James T. Fields placeOfBurial Mount Auburn Cemetery
S. G. Goodrich burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Thomas Wentworth Higginson placeOfBurial Mount Auburn Cemetery
Henry Gannett burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Rufus Choate buriedIn Mount Auburn Cemetery
Maria Weston Chapman burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Amos Lawrence burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
Cambridge hasLandmark Mount Auburn Cemetery
subject surface form: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge hasLandmark Mount Auburn Cemetery
Buckminster Fuller burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Charles S. Hamlin burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery
this entity surface form: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Horace Gray burialPlace Mount Auburn Cemetery