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Historic rural style cemetery in Essex County From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 acres (4.5 ha).[2]
Oak Grove Cemetery | |
![]() Oak Grove Cemetery | |
Location | Gloucester, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°37′10″N 70°40′14″W |
Area | 11 acres (4.5 ha) |
Built | 1854 |
Architect | Cleveland, Horace William Shaler; Copeland, Robert Morris |
Architectural style | Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 75000263 [1] |
Added to NRHP | April 3, 1975 |
It is the burial place of the operatic soprano Emma Abbott.[3]
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
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