Bounded by Derby, Washington, and Grove Sts., and Maplewood Ave., Gloucester, Massachusetts. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 03, 1975. NRIS 75000263.
1 contributing site. 1 contributing structure. 4 contributing objects.
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, United States. 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).
It is the burial place of the operatic soprano Emma Abbott.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63795021