Oak Grove Cemetery (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Oak Grove Cemetery
Oak Grove Cemetery
Location Gloucester, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°37′10″N 70°40′14″W / 42.61944°N 70.67056°WCoordinates: 42°37′10″N 70°40′14″W / 42.61944°N 70.67056°W
Area 11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built 1854
Architect Cleveland,Horace William Shaler; Copeland,Robert Morris
Architectural style Romanesque
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

75000263

[1]
Added to NRHP April 3, 1975

The Oak Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery, founded in 1854, which is bounded by Derby, Washington, and Grove Sts., and Maplewood Avenue in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The cemetery was founded by a group of local businessmen who sought to establish a cemetery in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style. They hired landscape architects Robert Morris Copeland and Horace William Shaler Cleveland to lay out a series of winding lanes. The Bradford Chapel was built through a bequest by George R. Bradford, another local businessman, and built in 1903-04. The cemetery is still privately owned, and has grown over time to occupy 11 acres (4.5 ha).[2]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Community Preservation Act Application (Rehabilitation and Restoration of Oak Grove Cemetery)". City of Gloucester. Retrieved 2014-12-02.