{"nrhp_refnum":"15000467","name":"Greenlawn Cemetery","other_names":["Old Burying Ground","Orne Street Burying Ground,","North Salem/Field Cemetery","Orne Street Cemetery"],"category":"site","location":{"address":null,"address_restricted":true,"city":"Salem","county":"Essex County","state":"MA","lat":42.53277778,"lon":-70.90416667,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"2015-07-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Greenlawn Cemetery is a municipal burial ground at 195 Nahant Road in Nahant, Essex County, Massachusetts, established in 1856 and expanded in stages to about 5.6 acres. It includes a granite chapel, gates, walls, a receiving tomb and war memorials.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant for architecture because Ellingwood Chapel and its matching walls and gates (1919-20) were designed by the Boston firm Cram & Ferguson, with windows by Charles J. Connick. It is also significant for community planning and development, as its layout and markers show phases of growth from 1856 to 1950.","narrative":"Greenlawn Cemetery occupies a southern slope on the Nahant peninsula, overlooking Lynn Bay. Founded in 1856 on a two-acre parcel, it grew four times between 1859 and 1928 to reach about 5.6 acres. Its focal point is Ellingwood Chapel, a Norman-style granite building of local stone, designed by Cram & Ferguson in 1919-20 as a gift from Mary M. Johnson in memory of her husband's parents. The firm also designed the matching stone walls, gates and tool house, giving the grounds a unified look, and the chapel windows are by Charles J. Connick. The older southern half holds varied nineteenth-century markers, a receiving tomb from 1856, a Civil War soldiers' monument from 1866 and a World War I memorial. The newer northern half is an open lawn with flush markers. Together, these features record Nahant's burial customs, civic memorials and architectural ambitions between 1856 and 1950.","period_of_significance":"1856-1950","architect_builder":"Cram & Ferguson (Boston); stained glass by Charles J. Connick","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Burials continue within the 1919-20 design, and efforts to preserve and maintain Ellingwood Chapel have been made in recent years.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:10:52.026768-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7948/63794810/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/00000481.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/15000467/4e2c6da256-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/15000467/4e2c6da256-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_Greenlawn_Cemetery_3.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</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:Salem_Greenlawn_Cemetery_3.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794810","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenlawn_Cemetery_(Salem,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22073815"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/essex-county/greenlawn-cemetery-15000467/"}