{"nrhp_refnum":"07001240","name":"Spring Brook Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Spring St","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mansfield","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":42.02024503100003,"lon":-71.22237379544492,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-12-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Spring Brook Cemetery is a privately owned burial ground on the north side of Spring Street in Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts. It grew from a four-acre parcel bought in 1860 and includes a Romanesque and Victorian Gothic chapel built in 1898.","why_significant":"The surviving text shows a cemetery that grew over time through land purchases, with a chapel given by a local industrialist family and a wide range of grave markers. The markers span marble, brownstone, cast zinc and granite, and they reflect changing funerary taste. The criteria and the full significance statement are not readable in the excerpt.","narrative":"Spring Brook Cemetery occupies a flat, gently rolling site close to the center of Mansfield, Massachusetts, on the north side of Spring Street. Its earliest documented land purchase was a four-acre tract bought by cemetery trustees in 1860, and later purchases extended it north to Coral Street and west to School Street. The grounds hold family lots, a granite receiving vault built in 1889, a stone wall, and gateposts. The focal point is the Card Memorial Chapel of 1898, a red brick building on a Quincy granite foundation, designed by Charles H. Eastman. Simon Card and Mary J. Card, tap and die manufacturers, built it as a memorial to their daughter Lulu. The markers include marble obelisks, brownstone monuments, cast zinc monuments and granite stones by regional makers. More than 500 veterans are buried here, including an Unknown Soldier monument placed in 1913. The oldest recorded burial dates to 1790.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Card Memorial Chapel: architect Charles H. Eastman; contractor J.J. Coon and Company of Boston; carpenter J.S. Kelly of Cambridgeport","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; the section 7 text describes it as having modern paved roads and a chain-link fence, and as still receiving burials.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.070726-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/7945/63794556/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/07001240.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001240/64251432ed-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001240/64251432ed-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"John Phelan","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spring_Brook_Cemetery,_Mansfield_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:Spring_Brook_Cemetery,_Mansfield_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Brook_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7580406"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/spring-brook-cemetery-07001240/"}