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Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned.
Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.
Famous Residents
Mount Auburn is the final resting place of thousands of distinguished people. Here are a few:
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773 - 1838), navigator and mathematician
- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893), rector of Trinity Church, Boston, Episcopal Bishop
- Charles Bulfinch (1763 - 1844), architect
- Mary Baker Eddy (1821 - 1910), religious leader
- Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), architect, visionary
- Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840 - 1924), art patron
- Charles Dana Gibson (1867 - 1944), artist
- Asa Gray (1810 - 1888), botanist
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), author and poet
- Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910), artist
- Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910), reformer and author
- Harriet Jacobs (1813 - 1897), author and abolitionist
- Edwin H. Land (1909 - 1991), inventor, photography pioneer
- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850 - 1924), U.S. Senator
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985), U.S. Senator
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), poet
- Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), poet
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), poet
- Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986), novelist
- Josiah Quincy (1772 - 1864), Mayor of Boston
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842 - 1924), civil rights leader, journalist
- Charles Sumner (1811 - 1874), abolitionist and U.S. Senator
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