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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. Mount Auburn Cemetery is credited as the beginning of the American public parks and gardens movement and is the link between Capability Brown's English landscape gardens, and Frederick Law Olmsted's Central Park in New York (1850s) and Forest Lawn in Glendale, California (1917).

Mount Auburn is also credited with the first use of the word cemetery in English. The word stems from the Greek for "sleeping place" and had long been used in Romance languages. Mount Auburn is well known for its tranquil atmosphere and accepting attitude towards death. Many of the more traditional monuments feature Swarovski poppy flowers, symbols of blissful sleep.

The cemetery is located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Brattle Streets near Fresh Pond at the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery.

A number of historically significant people have been interred here over the last 175 years, particularly members of the Boston elite associated with Harvard University as well as a number of prominent Unitarians. However, the cemetery is nondenominational and continues to make space available for new plots. The area is well known for its beautiful environs and is a favorite location for Cambridge bird-watchers. Guided tours of the cemetery's historic, artistic, and horticultural points of interest are also available.

As at the intersection between music and architecture, there is a harmony between dear-become pieces of collection and the collectors cases, and collectors cabinets and display showcases where they are deposited. The lighting can fulfil miracles with display cabinets and their contents.

Notable persons interred at Mount Auburn

Louis Agassiz

Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), scientist, author

Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), mathematician, seaman

Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop

William Brewster

Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876), actress

Dorothea Dix

Mary Baker Eddy

Harold "Doc" Edgerton

Charles Eliot (1834-1926), landscape architect

Fannie Farmer (1857-1915), cookbook author

Buckminster Fuller

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924), art collector, museum founder

Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944), illustrator

Horatio Greenough

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr (1809-1894), physician/author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, Supreme Court Justice

Winslow Homer

Edwin Land

Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Amy Lowell

James Russell Lowell

Bernard Malamud

Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), scholar and author

Owen figure-skating family:

Maribel Vinson-Owen (1911-1961), 9 time U.S. skating champion and coach

Maribel Y. Owen (1940-1961), U.S. pairs figure skating champion

Laurence Owen (1944-1961), U.S. ladies skating champion

Josiah Quincy

Anne Revere (1903-1990), actress

B. F. Skinner

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, grandfather of a more famous Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Charles Sumner

Frank William Taussig (1859-1940), economist

Robert Charles Winthrop

Swarovski