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Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

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Area
  
57.72 acres (23.36 ha)

Phone
  
+1 617-635-7360

Burials
  
Thomas Menino

NRHP Reference #
  
09000717

Added to NRHP
  
16 September 2009

Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

Location
  
45 Fairview Avenue, Hyde Park, Massachusetts (extends into Dedham)

Address
  
45 Fairview Ave, Boston, MA 02136, USA

Similar
  
Mount Hope Cemetery, Forest Hills Cemetery, Mt Calvary Cemetery, St Michael Cemetery, Crematory

Fairview Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A small section of the cemetery is located in neighboring Dedham. The cemetery was established by the town of Hyde Park in 1892, and became the responsibility of the city of Boston when it annexed that town in 1912.

The core of the cemetery (about 50 of its nearly 58 acres or 23 hectares) was laid out in the 19th century in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style, with winding lanes and a landscaped environment. It was the last public cemetery established in what is now the city of Boston.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2009.

Notable interments

  • Henry Beebee Carrington, brigadier general
  • Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler, MD. First African American female physician
  • Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston
  • The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Naval Reserve seaman of World War I.

    References

    Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts) Wikipedia