{"nrhp_refnum":"04000934","name":"Weeks Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Corner of Sudbury St. and Concord Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marlborough","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.373273331000064,"lon":-71.49754383699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small municipal burial ground of about 0.72 acre at the southeast corner of Sudbury Street and Concord Road in the northeast corner of Marlborough, Massachusetts, with burials beginning in 1837.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is tied to Marlborough's 19th century farming neighborhood and was one of several neighborhood burial grounds that came under municipal control after 1855. It also reflects the move from plain burial grounds to cemeteries organized by family lots, and shows the shift from slate to marble to granite markers. It qualifies as a cemetery because it has served as a neighborhood burying ground continuously since 1837.","narrative":"Weeks Cemetery is a compact, 0.72-acre burial ground in the northeast corner of Marlborough, Massachusetts, enclosed by a fieldstone wall and surrounded by suburban homes. It holds about 114 headstones and four family monuments, recording burials from 1837 into 2000, most from the 19th century. The graves are arranged in 34 family lots in rows parallel to Sudbury Street. Markers include slate stones with willow and urn designs, marble stones with Gothic and pointing-hand motifs, and later low granite and bronze markers. Two Civil War veterans and veterans of both world wars are buried here. The cemetery was named for the nearby Weeks family and became one of Marlborough's municipal burial grounds after 1855. It is the smallest of the city's municipal cemeteries and keeps a vernacular 19th century character. Its family lots, changing monument styles and epitaphs show how New England burial practice evolved, and its graves record the community's farming neighborhood, including high infant mortality.","period_of_significance":"1837 - 1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Generally well maintained but with deteriorated gravestones, especially marble, and several toppled headstones preserved in place. Few burials since 1950, and it is not generally considered an active cemetery.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.574754-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/85/7960/63796085/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04000934.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000934/573810205d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000934/573810205d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarlboroughMA_WeeksCemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarlboroughMA_WeeksCemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796085","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeks_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7979530"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/weeks-cemetery-04000934/"}