Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

Evergreen Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2060 Commonwealth Avenue Brighton, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′19″N 71°09′44″W
Area	19.66 acres (7.96 ha)
Built	1850
NRHP reference No.	09000612
Added to NRHP	August 14, 2009

Evergreen Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was established in 1850 by the town of Brighton (which was annexed to Boston in 1874), and was laid out in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Its entrance gate was built in 1892, and its Jacobethan office building was added in 1903. Boston architect James Mulcahy designed the office building. The older portions of the cemetery are characterized by winding lanes (now paved, originally gravel), with outcrops of Roxbury puddingstone.

The cemetery was listed the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Notable interments

• Richard Hamilton Taylor, Medal of Honor recipient
• William Wirt Warren, US Congressman 1875–77
• Horatio Julius Homer, 1st African American Boston Police Officer 1848–1923

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See also

• List of cemeteries in Boston, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

External links

Media related to Evergreen Cemetery (Boston, MA) at Wikimedia Commons

• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Evergreen Cemetery
• Evergreen Cemetery at Find a Grave
• City of Boston – Evergreen Cemetery