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Walnut Hills Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Grove Street and Allandale Road in Brookline, Massachusetts. It encompasses 45.26 acres (18.32 ha), with mature trees and puddingstone outcrops, and was laid out in 1875 in the then-fashionable rural cemetery style. Many past prominent citizens of the town, including architect H. H. Richardson, are buried here. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Description and history
Walnut Hills Cemetery is located in southern Brookline, south of the junction of Grove Street and Allandale Road. Its main entrance is at that junction, with a secondary entrance a short way to the west on Grove Street. It is flanked on the south and west sides by residential areas. Covering about 45 acres (18 ha), the cemetery is characterized by rolling hills, with occasional steep slopes, and mature plantings. Paved and unpaved roads and paths wind through the cemetery, following the contours of the terrain.
The cemetery's built features include its receiving tomb, built in 1901 to a design by Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr. The cluster of utility buildings, including a stable and shed, were designed by Guy Lowell (who is interred here) and built in 1901; Lowell is also the likely designer of the superintendent's cottage that stands near the secondary entrance.
In 1874 the town of Brookline authorized the purchase of 30 acres (12 ha) for a new cemetery, as its Old Burying Ground was filling up. The town retained two landscape gardeners, Ernest Bowditch and Franklin Copeland, to oversee its layout. Most of the design for its network of lanes and paths is credited to Bowditch. The cemetery was enlarged by 1 acre (0.40 ha) in 1918 and 14 acres (5.7 ha) in 1926 to reach its present size. The first parts of the cemetery to be filled have mostly granite headstones, often with symbolic figures. In 1886, the cemetery laid down strict new rules, requiring use of slate and enforcing dimensional restrictions. These rules were later relaxed to allow for the use of dark Quincy granite, and then other forms of granite.
Notable burials
Several individuals of local and national importance are buried here, including:
Thomas Aspinwall (1786–1876) – second-longest-serving United States consul
Gaspar G. Bacon (1886–1947) – 51st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1929–1932
Robert Bacon (1860–1919) – statesman and diplomat
Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903) – author of Gone From My Sight, cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Arthur Tracy Cabot (1852–1912) – surgeon and president of the Massachusetts Medical Society
Elizabeth Rogers Mason Cabot (1834–1920) – diarist and philanthropist
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861–1962) – industrialist who founded the Cabot Corporation
James Elliot Cabot (1821–1903) – philosopher and author
John Moors Cabot (1901–1981) – diplomat and U.S. Ambassador
Samuel Cabot Jr. (1784–1863) – Boston businessman and merchant in the Old China Trade
Samuel Cabot III (1815–1885) – physician, surgeon, and ornithologist
Otis Clapp, politician (Massachusetts state representative and member of the old Boston City Council), homeopath, pharmacist, publisher, bookseller, and U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau collector
Artie Clarke (1865–1949) – Major League Baseball player for the New York Giants
Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
Elliott Carr Cutler (1888–1947) – surgeon, military physician, and medical educator
Albert Elijah Dunning (1844–1923) – Congregationalist theologian and religious author
Desmond Fitzgerald (1846–1926) – president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was a trustee of the Walnut Hills Cemetery
Horace Williams Fuller (1844–1901) – lawyer and editor who served as the first editor of The Green Bag
Sears Gallagher (1869–1955) – New England artist
Norman Geschwind (1926–1984) – pioneer in behavioral neurology
Christopher A. Iannella (1913–1992) – member and president of the Boston City Council
Ernest Ludvig Ipsen (1869–1951) – painter specializing in portraiture
James T. Kelley (1855–1929) – architect and founding member of the Boston Architectural Club
Guy Lowell (1870–1927) – architect and landscape architect, notably designed the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and New York County Courthouse
Alexander Marble (1902–1992) – diabetologist, worked at the Joslin Diabetes Center
Fred Newman (1942–1987) – Major League Baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles/California Angels
John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920) – landscape architect, nephew and adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted
Olive Higgins Prouty (1882–1974) – novelist and poet, best known for her novels Stella Dallas (1923) and Now, Voyager (1941)
H. H. Richardson (1838–1886) – architect known for his Richardsonian Romanesque style and works such as the New York State Capitol, Trinity Church, and Allegheny County Courthouse
Charles Hercules Rutan (1851–1914) – architect and partner of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge with works such as the Chicago Cultural Center and South Station in Boston
Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) – botanist, founder and first leader of Boston's Arnold Arboretum.
Julius A. Schweinfurth (1858–1931) – architect and partnered with his brother Charles F. Schweinfurth
Henry Richardson Shepley (1887–1962) – architect and son of George Foster Shepley
Charles Carroll Soule (1842–1913) – bookman, established the Boston Book Company and The Green Bag with Horace Williams Fuller
John Goddard Stearns Jr. (1843–1917) – architect and cofounder of Peabody & Stearns, notable works include Kragsyde, The Breakers, and the Custom House Tower in Boston
Daniel Tyler Jr. (1899–1967) – Massachusetts political figure
Joe Walsh (1917–1996) – professional baseball player in the minor leagues, played shortstop
Herbert Langford Warren (1857–1917) – architect and founder of the School of Architecture at Harvard University
Sherman L. Whipple (1862–1930) – attorney and one of Boston's leading trial lawyers
Eliza Orne White (1856–1947) – author
Edward Zambara (1926–2007) – Canadian-American bass-baritone singer and music educator
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts
References
External links
Media related to Walnut Hills Cemetery (Brookline, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
Town of Brookline – Walnut Hills Cemetery
Walnut Hills Cemetery at Find a Grave