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	Mount Auburn Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Auburn_Cemetery (561 words)

	Mt. Auburn Cemetery Reception House Landmark Report
		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.
	www.ci.cambridge.ma.us /~Historic/receptionhouse.html (5737 words)

	Bangor In Focus: Mount Hope Cemetery
		The cemetery's board of trustees had reservations, though, of whether a section of land on the State Street side would be suitable for burials.
		"Mount Hope is greatly improving and will one day be one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the country," Bangor probate judge John Edward Godfrey wrote in his journal after attending a Memorial Day service at the cemetery in 1873.
		In 1980, the cemetery performed 337 cremations; in 1990 the number rose to 895; and in 1995 the cemetery cremated 1,281 bodies.
	bangorinfo.com /Focus/focus_mount_hope_cemetery.html (1935 words)

	Mt. Hope Cemetery - Bangor, Maine
		The rural cemetery movement in the United States began in 1831, with the opening of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass.
		At Mount Auburn, a large tract of land was converted into a romantic park with ponds, bowers, grottos, and a great variety of planting.
		It followed Mount Auburn by only three years but its larger importance lies in its reflection of a new mood across America, a disenchantment with the urban centers and a desire to provide a romanticized rural atmosphere within the reach of the city dweller.
	www.mthopebgr.com /history.htm (663 words)

	Homewood Cemetery
		Mount Auburn is considered the first American cemetery and it is from their plan that all other 19th-Century cemeteries were created.
		Mount Auburn was outside the city limits on a dramatically beautiful stretch of land that overlooked Boston and the Charles River.
		The Cemetery Association purchased 178 acres of this land with the intent of implementing a Lawn Park style Cemetery.
	homewoodcemetery.org /grounds.html (1440 words)

	Mount Auburn Cemetery: A New American Landscape
		In a few years, when the hand of taste shall have scattered among the trees, as it has already begun to do, enduring memorials of marble and granite, a landscape of the most picturesque character will be created.
		The establishment of Mount Auburn Cemetery, about four miles outside of Boston, marked a major shift in the way Americans buried their dead.
		This lesson is based on Mount Auburn Cemetery, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/84mountauburn/84mountauburn.htm (259 words)

	Backgrounder: Mount Auburn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Founded in 1831 by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mount Auburn was the first landscaped cemetery in America and was influential in the creation of America's public parks.
		For those interested in supporting Mount Auburn, The Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery is "a charitable trust promoting the appreciation and preservation of the cultural, historic and natural resources of Mount Auburn." Membership is open to all.
		The entrance to Mount Auburn Cemetery is on Mount Auburn Street near the boundary of Cambridge and Watertown, approximately 1.5 miles west of Harvard Square, just west of Mount Auburn Hospital and Fresh Pond Parkway.
	www.virtualbirder.com /vbirder/onLoc/onLocDirs/BOSSPR/bg/mtauburn/Backgrounder.html (549 words)

	National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Auburn initiated the great age of American cemetery-building and influenced the design of public parks, monuments, and suburbs.
		While changes have occurred over the years, Mount Auburn Cemetery's original design and rural character create a well-preserved cultural landscape that is largely intact as a distinct American design.
		Within its present 170 acres, Mount Auburn can be explored as a museum with "period rooms," representing all aspects of American cemetery design and cultural traditions.
	tps.cr.nps.gov /nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1779659527&ResourceType=District (170 words)

	SI OAHP: SPQ: Fall/Winter 1995
		The emergence of the rural landscape cemetery came in response to the inadequacies of older burial practices in dealing with the urban growth and cultural change in America at the end of the 18th century.
		The founders of Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first "rural landscape" cemetery, attempted to address many of the shortcomings of past burial grounds, particularly their lack of space and grim appearance, by adapting the "picturesque" style of landscape design for use in the cemetery.
		Cemetery monuments, in celebrating the lives of certain worthy individuals, became one means of cultivating American nationalism.
	www.si.edu /oahp/spq/spq95sf8.htm (1867 words)

	Mass Moments: Legislature Allows Establishment of Mount Auburn Cemetery
		Mount Auburn Cemetery is open to the public free of charge seven days a week.
		As the first rural cemetery in America, Mount Auburn pioneered the idea of burying the dead not in urban churchyards but in a beautifully designed, naturalistic landscape on the outskirts of the city.
		In 1835 Mount Auburn Cemetery became a non-profit corporation separate from the Horticultural Societ and in return for 25% of the annual receipts from the sale of burial plots, acquired title to the land.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=183 (1083 words)

	Cemeteries in Northern Illinois / Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Chemung Township, McHenry County Illinois / ComPortOne of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cemeteries in Northern Illinois / Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Chemung Township, McHenry County Illinois / ComPortOne of Rockford Illinois
		Mt Auburn Cemetery is located on the east side of Harvard.
		The cemetery lies on the south side of the road.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/cemeteries/illinois/mchenrycounty/mt_auburn.htm (75 words)

	Ryan Merrill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the center of the cemetery is a large hill with a tower on the top.
		cemetery has been around since it was founded in 1831, over 170 years ago.
		Mount Auburn has a number of bird species that are year-round residents.
	www2.bc.edu /~lindgret/fws-fall2002/student_pres/Ryan/Portfolio/essay2-Final.htm (2617 words)

	Memento Mori, The Cemetery
		Mount Auburn, founded in 1831, was not a public cemetery, but a private, non-profit organization that sold lots by subscription.
		The pattern at Mount Auburn was repeated in nearly all of the cemeteries that followed.
		The response of the American people to rural cemeteries was in fact one of the principal catalysts in the crusade to establish public parks that began in the middle of the nineteenth century.
	time.arts.ucla.edu /terminals/t1/ucr/memento_mori/cemetery.html (2730 words)

	The Silent Edge
		As that work was being carried out in 1999, cemetery trustees also asked Hilderbrand and Reed to suggest ways to allow for burials along a section of Maple Avenue that the cemetery had removed in 1997.
		The Mount Auburn pillars, designed by architect/artist Wellington "Duke" Reiter in collaboration with the landscape architects, pre-sent flat faces toward the path for inscriptions, are rounded on their backsides, and taper toward their slanted, flat tops.
		She chose the plot not only because it overlooks what she considers the most picturesque section of the cemetery, but also because of the precise and skillful design of Maple Avenue and the fact that it makes useful a site that was wasted.
	www.asla.org /lamag/lam04/June/feature3.html (1472 words)

	Mount Auburn Cemetery--Reading 1
		The rural cemetery was to be a place for the living, as well as the dead, where family values and the endurance of the family would be celebrated, and nature would provide comfort and inspiration.
		The students had nicknamed it "Sweet Auburn" after a town popularized in a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village." This poetic nickname inspired the name for the tallest hill at the site—Mount Auburn—and gave the cemetery its name as well.
		The Mount Auburn Cemetery was formally dedicated on September 24, 1831.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/84mountauburn/84facts1.htm (866 words)

	Magazine Antiques: The art of Forest Hills cemetery - Roxbury, Massachusetts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Auburn Cemetery, established in 1831 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, took the lead in the picturesque suburban cemetery movement in the United States.
		The movement reached the Midwest in 1845 with the founding of the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati and the South in 1847 with the inauguration of Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
		There was also the example set by cemeteries in and near London established during the 1830s.(3) However, American picturesque cemeteries have a distinctively different look from their cousins abroad.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_154/ai_53272526 (1453 words)

	Mount Auburn
		Mount Auburn Cemetery is located on 186th and Q Street on the outskirts of Omaha.
		This is another of the pioneer cemeteries that are being encroached upon by housing developments and strip malls.
		This is a well-kept cemetery, managed by a lot owners’ association and is non-profit.
	www.steveandmarta.com /graveyards/mount_auburn/mount_auburn_1.htm (200 words)

	spouses&partners@mit - Feature
		In 1997 a tree inventory of Mount Auburn Cemetery recorded over 5,500 trees, most of which are labeled with their common and scientific names.
		Washington Tower, standing on the highest point in the cemetery, was built in 1852 and is open from April to October.
		Auburn Lake area leads us to the family tomb of Isabella S. Gardner, art collector and creator of the Gardner Museum, and Mary Baker Eddy Memorial, on the bank of Halcyon Lake.
	web.mit.edu /medical/spousesandpartners/spring_feature_505.shtml (530 words)

	The Cemetery
		Photographs of such places as Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York are evidence that cemeteries were not only important cultural institutions, but tourist attractions.
		Cemeteries, moreover, were not only places of burial, but were used as markets, forums, and malls.
		Mount Auburn not only attracted visitors from the Boston area, but became a national and international tourist attraction as well.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/Civicarts/Designofcemetries/cemetery/cemetery.htm (2718 words)

	Went to Boston
		[3] Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was cemetery that "attempted to address many of the shortcomings of past burial grounds, particularly their lack of space and grim appearance, by adapting
		The immediate popularity of Mount Auburn Cemetery reflected the success of this new approach and inspired extensive replication in cities throughout America.
		Cemetery monuments, in celebrating the lives of certain worthy individuals, became one means of cultivating American nationalism." Source: "Tomb with a View: Mount Auburn, Oak Hill and the Rise of Rural Landscape Cemeteries in America," by J. Robert Orr.
	www.griffingweb.com /went_to_boston.htm (1336 words)

	Friends of the Mount Auburn Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		FRIENDS OF Founded in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA was America's first garden cemetery and a major inspiration for its public parks.
		Today Mount Auburn, a designated National Historic Landmark, remains an active cemetery and a beautiful natural setting that inspires the living.
		In 1986, the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery was established to promote the appreciation and preservation of the cultural, historic, and natural resources of Mount Auburn.
	massbird.org /bbc/BBCFriendsMtAuburn.htm (219 words)

	Turning Toward the Light: Walking in Mount Auburn Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A few days ago I had a chance to walk in Mount Auburn Cemetery, which I haven't done for years.
		Mount Auburn, consecrated in 1831, was America's first garden cemetery.
		If you live in the Cambridge area and can't easily get to the Arnold Arboretum (the mother lode for all plant lovers), Mount Auburn Cemetery is a nice alternative.
	lesliet.typepad.com /gardenblog/2005/03/walking_in_moun.html (401 words)

	CAMBRIDGE -- Mount Auburn Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, MA, (617) 547-7105.
		Friends of Mount Auburn keep up nearly 300 species of trees and 130 species of ground flora on 174 acres.
		See the Egyptian Revival entrance gate designed by Dr. Jacob Bigelow, the Gothic Revival Bigelow Chapel, the 62-foot-tall Washington Tower (from which much of Boston is visible), and the graves of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bernard Malamud, Charles Sumner, Eleanor Murphy, and many other Bay State figures.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /supplements/summer/01/listings/SIGHT_MASS_BOST_MOUNT_AUBURN_CEMETERY.html (104 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA.
		Saturday, June 19,2004 at 2:00 PM "African Americans at Mount Auburn: A Celebration of Juneteenth" -- a walking tour with Bree Detamore, Orientation Center Coordinator, Mount Auburn.
		During this walk, we will pay honor to some of the notable African Americans buried at Mount Auburn, including author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs; George Ruffin, the first African American judge in Massachusetts and his wife, reformer Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin; and U.S. District Attorney William Henry Lewis.
	www.juneteenth.com /4massachusetts_us.htm (279 words)

	Patterns of Decay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the most popular parks in the greater Boston area.
		This and a cemetery in Jamaica Plain cover most of the "stone children" period, which looks to have lasted from about 1870 to 1910.
		Elegantly carved on a fine fl marble, Sheila Shea knew she was dying from cancer in her mid 40s, and commissioned this epithet before she passed in 1992 or so.
	www.endicott-studio.com /gal/ebthrbts/decay/decay.html (556 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Spending Eternity on Harvard Hill
		According to Janet L. Heywood, vice president of interpretative programs at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Shattuck was a “good friend” of Jacob Bigelow, Class of 1806, who was a major player in the design and establishment of the cemetery and a Harvard science professor.
		It’s possible the proponents of the cemetery, like Bigelow, were acting through Shattuck to try to ensure that Harvard students and faculty would be buried there.
		According to Heywood, Harvard Hill is one of the “seven hills of Mount Auburn”—an allusion to the Seven Hills of Rome.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=502874 (1760 words)

	Untitled Document
		Mount Auburn Cemetery comprises of 174 acres and is situated on the Cambridge/ Watertown line.
		Arborist- The Horticulture Department at Mount Auburn Cemetery is seeking to fill a full-time entry level position on its crew.
		The Horticulture Department at Mount Auburn Cemetery is seeking to fill a full-time entry level position on its crew.
	www.massarbor.org /class.htm (2382 words)

	Boston Phoenix - The Best - Outdoors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When you're breaking down or getting broken up with, there's no place better than Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
		Founded in 1831, Mount Auburn is the oldest landscaped cemetery in the country, and one of the most beautiful green spaces in the area.
		Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, (617) 547-7105.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /supplements/the_best/99/text/OE_MT_AUBURN_CEMETARY.html (128 words)

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