Oak Grove Cemetery (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

	Oak Grove Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Oak Grove Cemetery
Location	Gloucester, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°37′10″N 70°40′14″W / 42.61944°N 70.67056°W
Area	11 acres (4.5 ha)
Built	1854
Architect	Cleveland, Horace William Shaler; Copeland, Robert Morris
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	75000263
Added to NRHP	April 3, 1975

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. 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]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "Community Preservation Act Application (Rehabilitation and Restoration of Oak Grove Cemetery)". City of Gloucester. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

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[nris-1] "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 2014-12-02.

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