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Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

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NRHP Reference #
  
09000612

Phone
  
+1 617-635-7359

Burials
  
Joseph G. Kendall

Area
  
8 ha

Added to NRHP
  
14 August 2009

Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

Location
  
2060 Commonwealth Avenue Brighton, Massachusetts

Address
  
2060 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, MA 02135, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 8AM–4PMFriday8AM–4PMSaturday8AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday8AM–4PMTuesday8AM–4PMWednesday8AM–4PMThursday8AM–4PM

Similar
  
Mount Hope Cemetery, Chestnut Hill Reservoir, St Joseph Cemetery, Forest Hills Cemetery, Mount Auburn Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was established in 1850 by the town of Brighton (which was annexed to Boston in 1874), and was laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Its entrance gate was built in 1892, and its Jacobethan office building was added in 1903. The older portions of the cemetery are characterized by winding lanes (now paved, originally gravel), with outcrops of Roxbury puddingstone.

The cemetery was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notable interments

  • Richard Hamilton Taylor, Medal of Honor recipient
  • William Wirt Warren, US Congressman 1875-77
  • Horatio Julius Homer, 1st African American Boston Police Officer 1848-1923
  • References

    Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts) Wikipedia