Evergreen Cemetery
National Register of Historic Places

Evergreen Cemetery

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Listed
August 13, 2009
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
09000612

About this property

Evergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery 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. Boston architect James Mulcahy designed the office building. 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. Horatio J. Homer (1848–1923), Boston's first African-American police officer William Jackson (1848–1910), bridge designer and city engineer of Boston Richard H. Taylor (1870–1956), Medal of Honor recipient William W. Warren (1834–1880), U.S. Congressman 1875–1877 National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts Media related to Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, MA) at Wikimedia Commons U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Evergreen Cemetery

Location

2060 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
42.33916, -71.16311

Categories

ARCHITECTUREARTCOMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURESOCIAL HISTORY
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Sources

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Evergreen Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 2009.

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