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Mount Auburn Cemetery

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Creator(s)
designer: Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (American, 1783-1851), designer: Jacob Bigelow (American, 1786-1879), designer: Alexander Wadsworth (American, 1806-1898)
Time period
creation date: founded, 1831, creation date: landscape architecture, 1831-1832
Location
Site: Egyptian Revival entrance in Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States)
Site: Watertown (Massachusetts, United States)
Cultural context
American
Description
First American garden cemetery; before park movement, a popular spot for recreational outings.
general view, monuments, 1988
Work type
Cemetery
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by Lois A. Craig
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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