![]() ![]() To find out more, the website for Mount Auburn is. Mount Auburn also has an excellent line-up of historic walks, talks, book discussion groups and so forth. What a view of Cambridge and downtown Boston you get when you climb to the top of the tower! Bring your camera. Another big attraction is a stone tower at the highest point on the property. Oh, and I should add that the cemetery has three or four beautiful little ponds among its lovely hills and dales. You can get a map at the visitors' center and wander about for hours. Also buried there are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (her monument is one of the highlights of Mount Auburn) and many other distinguished Americans. On a recent visit I was especially touched by the statue of a faithful dog on the grave of Thomas Perkins, founder of Perkins School for the Blind. When this magnificent garden-like site at the edge of Cambridge opened in 1831, it was meant to provide a beautifully landscaped place for the living to enjoy, as well as a resting place for the dead.Īlthough the deceased are still being buried at Mount Auburn and most of its many thousands of graves are occupied by the non-famous, it is for its well-known occupants that Mount Auburn is most often visited. In fact it was at Mount Auburn that the word "cemetery" was first used (it's from the Greek word for place of sleeping). Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge is the first and oldest park-like cemetery in the U.S. People who enjoy history, architecture, gravestone carvings, landscape gardens and even bird watching find cemeteries fascinating and peaceful places to visit. Here in New England, where we have so many historic cemeteries, they are much more than just graveyards. Davis for the Winter 1997 – 1998 issue of Sweet Auburn.Peaceful Places of Quiet Beauty: Cemeteries are for the living as much as for the dead. Learn more about the construction of the Eddy Monument in the article “Mary Baker Eddy Memorial” written by Michael R. But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you.” Christ Jesus (John 14:25-26) “These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. It is a divine utterance, – the Comforter which leadeth into all truth.” Mary Baker Eddy (Science and Health 128:4-6, 127:26-29) It has a spiritual, and not a material origin. Science is an emanation of divine Mind, and is alone able to interpret God aright. “The term Science, properly understood, refers only to the laws of God and to His government of the universe, inclusive of man. Text on the tablets to the left and right of the memorial: The Truth he has taught and spoken lives, and moves in our midst a divine afflatus.” Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings 1882 – 1896 166:3-7) “The monument whose finger points upward, commemorates the earthly life of a martyr but this is not all of the philanthropist, hero, and Christian. MARY BAKER EDDY DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AUTHOR OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES Winslow with excerpts from The Art of Commemoration and America’s First Rural Cemetery: Mount Auburn’s Significant Monument Collection ©2015, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Sartwout, “The Mary Baker Eddy Memorial,” 47.Copy in Historical Collections, Mount Auburn Cemetery “It was essential,” Swartwout explained, that the memorial be simple and dignified in character not overornamented, and yet worthy of its high purpose.”² ![]() A set of curving stairs flanking each side of the Eddy monument lead toward Halcyon Lake. Explaining he wanted “nothing between the grave and sky but flowers,” Swartwout designed an open temple filled with plantings¹. Swartwout based his design for the columns on the porticos of the “Tower of the Winds” in Athens. Architect Egerton Swartwout won the competition for the memorial, regarded as one of the finest examples of granite carving in the country. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, commissioned the magnificent memorial for Mary Baker Eddy (1821 – 1910), discoverer and founder of Christian Science, advocate of prayer-based healing, teacher, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and founder of The Christian Science Monitor. ![]() Ornamental Carvings throughout the memorial depict wild roses, morning glories, a sheaf of wheat, and the lamp of wisdom. ![]()
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