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Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
Originally published in 1989, this book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. Inspired by developments in England and France, and founded in 1831, Mount Auburn became the prototype for the "rural cemetery" movement and was an importa...more
Paperback, 373 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by University of Massachusetts Press
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It never entered my mind to read a history of modern burial practices. It sounds so macabre, I would never have looked for one. On the other hand, I am interested in cemeteries whether they are grand, park-like places or little wayside family plots. I was curious about Mount Auburn and thought this would be, essentially, a picture book of extraordinary monuments. It's not. Silent City is a history of the process and reasons for establishing Mount Auburn and it contains quite a bit of history of...more
Mount Auburn is arguably the most important cemetery in America. Founded by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in 1831, Mount Auburn was the first nonsectarian graveyard in this country, opened in a beautiful woodland outside of the city of Boston. It single-handedly began the "rural" or "garden" cemetery movement, where a premium was placed on the uplifting, consoling beauty of nature.
Linden-Ward's Silent City on a Hill places Mount Auburn in a context of the "grim graveyards and common pi...more
Linden-Ward's Silent City on a Hill places Mount Auburn in a context of the "grim graveyards and common pi...more
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