Proprietors’ Annual Meeting 2023
The Annual Meeting of the Proprietors of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn will be held virtually on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 10 AM. We welcome voting proprietors to join us for a summary of the most recent fiscal year … Continue reading
Horticulture Highlight: False-cypress, Chamaecyparis pisifera
Birds small enough to nest in our young cypressAre physicians to usThey burst from the tree exactlyWhere the mind ends and the eye sees… Donald Revell Scientific identification of plants was dramatically changed and formalized by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) when … Continue reading
A New American Landscape
Mount Auburn Cemetery was the expression of a new idea. Before 1831, most Americans were buried in isolated plots or in crowded town graveyards. Mount Auburn’s founders had a new vision. They designed a tranquil, natural setting, well outside the … Continue reading
Lodge Family Tomb Fall 2023 Preservation Work
On a stroll around Auburn Lake you may have noticed the impressive Lodge family side-hill tomb on Oxalis Path. This brownstone tomb is the resting place of three U.S. Senators: Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924); his grandson Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. … Continue reading