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Shaw Monument, conserved 2012
The Shaw family Monument is one of Mount Auburn’s most significant and celebrated memorials. Robert Gould Shaw, a Boston merchant, China trader, and philanthropist commissioned architect and designer Hammatt Billings to design a monument carved by local stone carver Alpheus … Continue reading
Statue of Hygeia, conserved 2008
The statue of Hygeia, commissioned in 1870 by Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt for her grave at Mount Auburn Cemetery, is the only known work of funerary art by Edmonia Lewis in a cemetery. As such, the statue of Hygeia is … Continue reading
Nathaniel Bowditch Statue, 1847, conserved 2012
The bronze statue of Nathaniel Bowditch (1771-1838), astronomer, mathematician, and author of the American Practical Navigator, has greeted visitors to the Cemetery for over 160 years. The Cemetery commissioned the sculptor R. Ball Hughes (1806-1868) to create a portrait statue … Continue reading
Mount Auburn’s Civil War Heroes: Preserving Memory in Stone
With a $5,000 matching grant from the Massachusetts Sesquicentennial Commission of the American Civil War, and additional support from Harold I. Pratt, the Mildred Cambridge Memorial Fund, The Ruth & Henry Walter Fund, and other generous supporters, Mount Auburn … Continue reading