Glenwood Cemetery (Maynard, Massachusetts)

Glenwood Cemetery
Location Maynard, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°25′26″N 71°26′39″W / 42.42389°N 71.44417°W / 42.42389; -71.44417Coordinates: 42°25′26″N 71°26′39″W / 42.42389°N 71.44417°W / 42.42389; -71.44417
Area 23 acres (9.3 ha)
Architectural style No Style Listed
NRHP Reference #

04000425

[1]
Added to NRHP May 12, 2004

Glenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery northeast of Parker Street and Great Road in Maynard, Massachusetts. It is one of the first municipal creations of the town after its incorporation in 1871, and is the resting place of many of its early and prominent residents, including Amory Maynard, founder of the Assabet Woolen Mill and namesake of the community.[2] The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.[1]

Description and history

Glenwood Cemetery is located at the northeast corner of Parker Street (Massachusetts Route 27) and Great Road (Massachusetts Route 117), a short way south of the town center. It has entrance is on Great Road, roughly midway between Parker Street and Old Mill Road, and on Parker Street, nearly opposite Walker Street. The cemetery has two distinct sections, reflecting its growth over time.[2]

The oldest portion of the cemetery is 8 acres (3.2 ha) in size, and was purchased by the town in 1871, the year of its incorporation out of portions of Sudbury and Stow. This area was laid out in a version of the style of the then-fashionable rural cemetery movement, with a circular lane at the entrance and a series of parallel lanes behind. At the center of the circle there was originally a gazebo, which was to be a focal point of the cemetery; this was destroyed in the New England Hurricane of 1938. East of this original portion is a section laid out in the 1930s, using labor funded by the Works Progress Administration. It has a series of concentric lanes in a roughly ovoid shape, and is joined to the old section by a single lane.[2]

The most notable burial in the cemetery is that of Amory Maynard, for whom the town is named. The Maynard family tomb, located near Parker Street, is a 15' tall earthen structure, faced in granite and topped by an urn. Marble doors provide access to a crypt space in which Maynard and other family members are buried.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "NRHP nomination for Glenwood Cemetery". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-03.
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