{"nrhp_refnum":"04000537","name":"Milton Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"211 Centre St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Milton","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.26138923950006,"lon":-71.06062578168715,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-06-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Milton Cemetery is a 102-acre town-owned burial ground at 211 Centre Street, Milton, Massachusetts, begun in 1672 and enlarged in stages through the 20th century. It includes a superintendent's house, stable, receiving tomb and maintenance buildings.","why_significant":"The cemetery documents more than 330 years of burial practice, from a colonial linear burial ground to a 19th-century 'rural' cemetery designed by landscape architects and a modern section. Its gravestones show the evolution of carving styles and materials, including works attributed to known carvers, and its layout reflects Milton's growth from farming town to Boston suburb.","narrative":"Milton Cemetery covers about 102 acres of rolling land on Centre Street in Milton, Massachusetts. Burials began in 1672, and the grounds grew in three phases. The Old Burial Ground follows a straight, colonial-era pattern and holds roughly 600 gravestones, including slate markers attributed to early carvers such as William Mumford, plus granite tombs and the Whitcher family memorial. The New Cemetery, begun in 1854, was laid out with winding avenues in the 'rural' cemetery tradition by landscape architects including Copeland and Cleveland and Whitman and Breck. It contains a duck pond, a Gothic Revival receiving tomb of 1879, a soldiers' lot and a stone by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The Modern Cemetery was added from 1945. Buildings include a Queen Anne superintendent's house and stable from 1889 and a Colonial Revival cemetery building from 1929. Together they record changing burial customs and the town's growth from a farming community into a Boston suburb.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Landscape architects Copeland and Cleveland (1856), Whitman and Breck (1877), Ernest W. Bowditch (1898); receiving tomb built by O. T. Rogers and Company (1879)","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne (superintendent's house); Mid 19th Century: Gothic Revival (receiving tomb); 20th Century Revival: Colonial Revival (cemetery building)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; maintenance buildings continue to serve their historic uses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.537694-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/7964/63796406/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04000537.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000537/20077f43bb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000537/20077f43bb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milton_Cemetery_MA_01.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jameslwoodward</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milton_Cemetery_MA_01.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"95000698","name":"Milton Hill Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/massachusetts/milton-hill-historic-district-95000698/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796406","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6861028"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/milton-cemetery-04000537/"}