{"nrhp_refnum":"04001082","name":"Maplewood Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Pleasant St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marlborough","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.35382336300006,"lon":-71.56279522549684,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-09-29","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 15-acre municipal cemetery on Pleasant Street in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, reportedly established in the 1830s and expanded in sections through the 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The cemetery is tied to Marlborough's 19th-century history, holding the graves of several thousand residents, including new immigrants and veterans, with Civil War and Spanish American War monuments. It also reflects late 19th-century cemetery design, combining rural cemetery features with a more practical layout of straight roads, smaller lots and increasingly granite monuments.","narrative":"Maplewood Cemetery is a 15-acre burial ground west of downtown Marlborough, off Pleasant Street. Reportedly begun in the 1830s as a small neighborhood cemetery, it grew in stages after the town bought land in 1864 and added more in 1883. It became the city's primary cemetery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A mortared fieldstone wall encloses most of the perimeter. Inside are a rectilinear road network, terraced older sections, a brick receiving tomb built around 1880, an iron-fenced family lot, and monuments in marble and granite, including Gothic and art deco examples. A Civil War soldier statue and a Spanish American War monument reflect local pride in veterans. Several thousand residents are buried here, among them families with long local roots and immigrants who came to work in the shoe industry. The cemetery was listed for its connection to Marlborough's 19th-century growth and for its representation of late 19th-century municipal cemetery design.","period_of_significance":"1830s - 1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as generally well maintained; burials continued through the 20th century, but it is not generally considered an active cemetery. The receiving tomb is no longer actively used.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:03.562698-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/75/7960/63796075/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/04001082.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001082/aef121614c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001082/aef121614c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maplewood_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</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:Maplewood_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796075","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplewood_Cemetery_(Marlborough,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1892097"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/maplewood-cemetery-04001082/"}