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. This 174 acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as a fine arboretum. It is located at the corner of Mount Auburn and Brattle Streets near Fresh Pond at the western end of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and is adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery.

Notable persons interred at Mount Auburn

• Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), scientist
• Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907), scientist, author
• Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), mathematician, seaman
• Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), American Episcopal bishop
• William Brewster
• Charles Bulfinch, architect
• George Cabot (1752-1823), statesman
• Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851), statesman, U.S. Secretary of the Navy
• Frank Crowninshield (1872-1947), creater & editor of "Vanity Fair" Magazine
• Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876), actress
• Dorothea Dix (1802-1887), nurse, hospital reformer
• Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), religious leader
• Harold "Doc" Edgerton
• Charles William Eliot (1834-1926), Harvard University president
• Fannie Farmer (1857-1915), cookbook author
• Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), United States Supreme Court Justice
• Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), architect
• 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
• Julia Ward Howe, activist, poet
• Edwin Land
• Abbott Lawrence, (1792-1855), politician, philanthropist
• Henry Cabot Lodge
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Amy Lowell
• James Russell Lowell
• Bernard Malamud
• Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), scholar and author
• Robert Nozick (1938-2002), philosopher
• 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
• John Rawls (1921-2002), philosopher
• 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