Mount Auburn Cemetery
Founded in 1831, Mount Auburn’s mission has always been to inspire all who visit, comfort the bereaved, and commemorate the dead in a landscape of exceptional beauty.
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts - Find a Grave
Today Mount Auburn continues its historic dual role serving as both an active cemetery and a "museum" preserving nearly two centuries of changing attitudes about death and commemoration and changing tastes in architecture and landscape design.
Locate a Grave – Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge, MA 02138 +1 617 547 7105 info@mountauburn.org
Mount Auburn Cemetery - Wikipedia
Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark.
Visit a Grave – Mount Auburn Cemetery
Looking for the grave of someone buried at Mount Auburn? Our online burial search allows you to locate all of those now buried here. Read our Tribute Rules & Regulations, see the calendar of holidays and clean sweep dates, and purchase floral tributes in our webstore.
Mount Auburn Cemetery - U.S. National Park Service
Aug 28, 2020 · Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first landscaped rural or “garden” cemetery in the United States. Established in 1831 in Watertown and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the cemetery was not only designed as a resting place for the deceased, but also as an attraction and pleasure ground, with picturesque landscapes, winding paths, a variety of ...
Mount Auburn Cemetery- The First Rural Cemetery in the U.S.A.
Mount Auburn Cemetery is a classic example of a 19th century rural cemetery with a landscaped, park-like appearance inspired by the English garden movement and elaborate memorials adorned with Victorian symbolism.
Mount Auburn Cemetery - Cambridge Office for Tourism
Mount Auburn Cemetery, designated a National Historic Landmark, is 175 acres, home to over 95,000 monuments, and a Mass Audubon "Important Birding Site." Founded on the principle of "commemorating the dead in a landscape of beauty and tranquility," Mount Auburn is still an active, non-denominational cemetery.
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA: Events, Amenities …
Located in West Cambridge, Mount Auburn Cemetery is a spacious garden & cemetery – in fact, this historic site is the first cemetery in the United States. The cemetery not only has statues and sculptures, but it is also the site of wildlife and a great spot for birding.
Visit - Mount Auburn Cemetery
Each year, more than 200,000 visitors of all ages come to commune with nature, explore our landscape, participate in a program, and visit the graves of those remembered here. Come discover for yourself what makes Mount Auburn a national treasure. Mount Auburn is a place of consolation and inspiration.