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]

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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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Community Preservation Act Application (Rehabilitation and Restoration of Oak Grove Cemetery)". City of Gloucester. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
  3. ^ "Take a walking tour of Oak Grove Cemetery". Wicked Loca1 Gloucester. Retrieved March 24, 2018.

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