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Oak Grove Cemetery (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Historic rural style cemetery in Essex County

Summary

Historic rural style cemetery in Essex County

Field	Value
name	Oak Grove Cemetery
nrhp_type	hd
nocat	yes
image	Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester MA.jpg
caption	Oak Grove Cemetery
location	Gloucester, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapin	Massachusetts#USA
area	11 acre
built	1854
architect	Cleveland, Horace William Shaler; Copeland, Robert Morris
architecture	Romanesque
added	April 3, 1975
refnum	75000263
<ref name	"nris"

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, United States. 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 acre.

It is the burial place of the operatic soprano Emma Abbott.

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

References

{{NRISref. 2008a
"Community Preservation Act Application (Rehabilitation and Restoration of Oak Grove Cemetery)". City of Gloucester.
"Take a walking tour of Oak Grove Cemetery".

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