{"nrhp_refnum":"00000481","name":"Greenlawn Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"195 Nahant Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Nahant","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.42717200000004,"lon":-70.92733171480768,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-05-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Greenlawn Cemetery is a 5.6-acre municipal cemetery at 195 Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts, established in 1856 and expanded in stages through 1928. Its walls, gates and Ellingwood Chapel were designed by Cram & Ferguson in 1919-20.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery reflects Nahant's community planning and development as it grew from a two-acre plot into a unified landscape. It also holds architectural value in the Cram & Ferguson Gothic Revival chapel, gates and walls, with Charles J. Connick windows, a continuation of the town's tradition of high-style public buildings.","narrative":"Greenlawn Cemetery occupies a southern hillside slope on Nahant Road in Nahant, Massachusetts. Established in 1856 as a two-acre parcel, it grew in four stages between 1859 and 1928 to reach 5.6 acres. Its character comes largely from a 1919-20 design by the Boston firm of Cram & Ferguson. Granite quarried in Nahant was used for Ellingwood Chapel, the tool house, perimeter walls and gates, all in a simple Norman and Gothic Revival manner. The chapel was a gift from Mary M. Johnson in memory of her husband's parents, and its windows are by Charles J. Connick. The older southern half holds varied nineteenth-century markers, a receiving tomb of 1856, and Civil War and World War I memorials, while the newer northern half is an open lawn with flush markers. The property was valued for its role in the town's development and for its architecture, with a significance period of 1856 to 1950.","period_of_significance":"1856-1950","architect_builder":"Cram & Ferguson (Boston); stained glass by Charles J. Connick","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"New burials continue within the 1919-20 design, and recent efforts have been made to preserve and maintain Ellingwood Chapel.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:04.846775-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7948/63794810/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00000481.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000481/c75358dfad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000481/c75358dfad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenlawn_Cemetery,_Nahant_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">John Phelan</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greenlawn_Cemetery,_Nahant_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794810","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlawn_Cemetery_(Nahant,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604263"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/greenlawn-cemetery-00000481/"}