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Designing Mount Auburn

Posted by Katie Beth Clark on Sat, Aug 04, 2012

Have you ever wondered who designed Mount Auburn Cemetery?  Who were the remarkable Bostonians who shaped this new garden cemetery? If it wasn’t Frederick Law Olmsted (who was age 9 in 1831) who was it? 

365 Things to do in Boston cemetery tour

Join Meg Winslow to learn about the Bostonians who contributed to the design of Mount Auburn's picturesque landscape, the country's first designed landscape open to the public. They will visit significant landscape features within the Cemetery, as well as designs by the Olmsted Firm and Fletcher Steele among others.

Here are the details:

Dates: Wed, Aug 8, 2012
Times: 5:30-7:00 pm

Location:
Mount Auburn Cemetery
580 Mount Auburn St. 
Cambridge, MA 02138


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