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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1812/11/15 Thomas Coffin Amory Died Thomas Coffin Amory dies at about age 45 in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr Amory is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1830/00/00 Dr Jacob Bigelow Consulting Architect A site is acquired for Mount Auburn Cemetery. Bigelow, concerned about the unhealthiness of burials at churches and the completion for space, lead the drive for a new cemetery.
1831/00/00 Henry A S Dearborn Landscape Architect Mount Auburn Cemetery is designed by Henry A S Dearborn with assistance from Jacob Bigelow and Alexander Wadsworth.
1831/00/00 Alexander Wadsworth, landscape architect Landscape Architect Henry A S Dearborn collaborates with Alexander Wadsworth on the topographic details of Mount Auburn Cemetery.
1831/09/24 Joseph Story Dignitary First president of the Mount Auburn Association, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, dedicates the cemetery. The first rural cemetery in the United States.
1833/06/17 Elizabeth Coffin Amory Died Elizabeth Coffin Amory dies at age 91 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Mrs Amory is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1846/02/07 Mary Boott Lee Died Mary Boott Lee dies in Boston. Mrs Lee is buried at Mt Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts. Amaranth Path, lot 529
1851/02/03 Sec Benjamin W Crowninshield Died Benjamin Williams Crowninshield dies in Boston, Massachusetts. He buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1854/00/00 Gridley J F Bryant Architect Washington Tower, a landmark at Mount Auburn Cemetery, is built of Quincy granite, 1852-1854.
1854/00/00 Dr Jacob Bigelow Architect Washington Tower, a landmark at Mount Auburn Cemetery, is built of Quincy granite, 1852-1854.
1867/10/08 Sen Charles G Loring Died Charles G Loring dies at Prides Crossing, Beverly, Massachusetts. Senator Loring is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1868/07/15 William T G Morton Died William T G Morton dies in New York, New York. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA.
1869/10/18 Susannah Amory Prescott Died Susannah Amory Prescott dies in Marshfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mr Winslow is buried at the Old Winslow Burying Ground in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1870/00/00 Ernest W Bowditch Work Bowditch works at the Boston office of Shedd and Sawyer, Civil Engineers. One of his first tasks is general maintenance of the Mount Auburn Cemetery grounds in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lays out gardens, driveways, paths and curbing.
1872/02/05 John R Poor Work On motion of Mr Collamore, chair appoints Messrs John Collamore, John R Poor and Alex Wadsworth as a Committee of three to receive, count and sort the votes for Trustees.
1872/02/05 Charles Amory Work Charles Amory informs the Trustees of the lack of suitable office space for the Superintendent and staff. The President assures the Proprietors that this has already been considered by the Trustees, and will continue to receive their attention.
1872/05/17 James Perkins In Memoriam The remains of Elizabeth Perkins and James Perkins are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1876/04/21 Eleonora Wayles Randolph Coolidge Died Eleonora Randolph Coolidge dies in Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs Coolidge is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1880/08/31 Charles T Jackson In Memoriam Charles Thomas Jackson is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1884/05/00 Ellen Randolph Dwight Died Ellen Coolidge Dwight dies in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1884/06/00 Harvey D Parker In Memoriam Harvey D Parker is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
1889/12/11 Mary Elizabeth Sawyer Tyler Died Mary Elizabeth Sawyer Tyler passes away. She is buried in Mt Auburn Cemetery near Boston.
1893/11/08 Francis Parkman Died Francis Parkman dies in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
1898/02/10 Charles Amory Died Charles Amory dies in Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts. Mr Amory is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1898/12/10 John Lowell Gardner II Died John Lowell Gardner II dies in Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried on Oxalis Path, Lot 2900, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1899/00/00 Willard T Sears Architect Built in the 1840s, Bigelow Chapel was rebuilt in the 1850s of Quincy granite and renovated in 1899 by Willard Sears.
1902/02/00 Charles Franklin Sprague In Memoriam Charles Franklin Sprague is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery,Watertown, Mass.
1902/08/18 Gen Charles G Loring Died Charles G Loring dies at Beverly, Massachusetts. Gen Charles Greely Loring is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1909/07/29 Jane Loring Gray Died Jane Loring Gray dies at Beverly, Massachusetts. Mrs Gray is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1910/05/12 Thomas Johnston Homer Born Thomas Johnston Homer dies in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1910/10/17 Julia Ward Howe Died Julia Ward Howe dies of pneumonia at her home, Oak Glen, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
1912/05/02 Francis Davis Millet In Memoriam Funeral services for Francis Millet are held in the chapel at Mount Auburn Cemetery Sinking of the RMS Titanic
1915/06/02 Leslie Lindsey Mason In Memoriam Leslie Hawthorne Lindsey Mason is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery: CHERRY AVENUE Lot 6462, Grave Space 1. The epitaph on her tombstone is the title of an 1868 hymn, "The King of Love my Shepherd Is". Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
1922/11/29 William Lindsey In Memoriam William Lindsey is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1924/05/09 Mabel Bayard Warren Died Mabel Bayard Warren dies in Boston, Massachusetts. Mrs Warren is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1924/07/17 Isabella Stewart Gardner Died Isabella Stewart dies in Boston. She is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
1948/03/13 Maud Howe Elliott Died Maud Howe Elliott dies in Newport, Rhode Island. She is buried at Mt Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts alongside her husband and parents.
1948/09/09 William Luther Mowll In Memoriam Funeral for William L Mowll is held at Bigelow Chapel, Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Places

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PlaceAsNotedInType
Mount Auburn Cemetery Reception House
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Data »

Particulars for Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Cemetery
Architectural, Decorative Style Egyptian Revival
Architectural Style Exotic revival
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Sight Category Historic District
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Architectural Style Medieval Revival
Level of Significance National
Historic Use Park
Owner Private



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 75000254
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Wadsworth,Alexander; Bigelow,Dr. Jacob
Architectural Style: Other, Exotic revival, Gothic revival
Attribute: Egyptian Revival,Medieval
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Period of Significance: 1850-1874, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1831, 1843, 1853
Historic Function: Landscape, Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery, Park
Current Function: Landscape, Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery Park

Creative Works »

WorkTypeAsNotedInCreatorNote
The Ghostly Rental (short story) Short Story Henry James One day I took a stroll in Mount Auburn cemetery - an institution at that period in its infancy, and full of a sylvan charm which it has now completely forfeited. It contained more maple and birch ... and the sleepers had ample elbow room.

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