{"nrhp_refnum":"09000717","name":"Fairview Cemetery (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"45 Fairview Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Boston","county":"Suffolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.24823880900007,"lon":-71.14260471223591,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-09-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 57.72-acre municipal cemetery at 45 Fairview Avenue in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, with a small section in Dedham, Massachusetts. It was established in 1892 by the town of Hyde Park and has been owned by the city of Boston since 1912.","why_significant":"The cemetery is tied to the history of Hyde Park, as the town's first cemetery and its primary burial ground, and it reflects the community's diverse immigrant population. It also illustrates late 19th- and early 20th-century cemetery and monument design, with distinctive puddingstone retaining walls and a bronze Civil War soldiers memorial. It contains the graves of notable residents, including James Monroe Trotter and William Monroe Trotter.","narrative":"Fairview Cemetery is a 57.72-acre burial ground in Boston's Hyde Park neighborhood, extending slightly into Dedham. Hyde Park established it in 1892 as its first cemetery, and Boston acquired it after annexation in 1912. It is still in use, though new burial space is limited. The landscape combines a wooded central hill, open lawn, mature trees and an unusual network of interior puddingstone retaining walls. A brick Gothic chapel of 1917, designed by Berry and Davidson, now serves as the office, and an 1893 granite receiving tomb survives nearby. Sections are set aside for Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans, firefighters, Catholics, Syrian families and paupers, showing the variety of the community. The bronze Civil War soldier by Melzar Mosman is the most artistic monument. Notable burials include James Monroe Trotter and his son, the civil rights editor William Monroe Trotter. The cemetery was listed for its link to local history and its design from 1892 to 1959.","period_of_significance":"1892-1959","architect_builder":"Berry and Davidson (cemetery office/chapel); Melzar H. Mosman (Civil War Soldiers Memorial sculptor), cast by Gorham Co.","architectural_style":"Gothic (cemetery office)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains an active city cemetery with limited new burial space; the 1917 chapel was converted to a cemetery office in 1998.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:05.119497-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/98/7970/63797098/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/09000717.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000717/8788fb96cd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000717/8788fb96cd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jameslwoodward","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fairview_Cemetery_Boston_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:Fairview_Cemetery_Boston_MA_01.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63797098","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Cemetery_(Boston,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5430795"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/suffolk-county/fairview-cemetery-additional-documentation-09000717/"}