{"nrhp_refnum":"89001497","name":"Mount Feake Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"203 Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Waltham","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.365338784000045,"lon":-71.24853189476096,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1989-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mount Feake Cemetery is an 84.78-acre garden cemetery at 203 Prospect Street, Waltham, Massachusetts, laid out in 1857 along the Charles River to a plan by landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland. It also contains the ruins of the former Waltham Pumping Station.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most fully developed and best preserved garden cemeteries in Massachusetts, following the model of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Copeland's winding path system suits the hilly terrain and reflects the romantic taste of the period. The quality of its Victorian funerary art adds further significance, and the pumping station buildings contribute historically and visually.","narrative":"Mount Feake Cemetery occupies about 85 acres on the north bank of the Charles River in Waltham, opposite the former American Waltham Watch Company. Waltham chose town-owned land for a new burial ground in the mid-1850s, and the cemetery was consecrated in October 1857. Robert Morris Copeland drew the plan, using curving avenues and paths that follow the hills, ledges and riverbanks. Its design followed the garden cemetery model set by Mount Auburn. The grounds hold roughly 5,000 stones, mostly granite, with Victorian Gothic profiles, cast iron fences, a statue of Reed Shepard and a classicized relief of a seated woman reading. Burials include composer Effie C. Carlton and several Waltham mayors. Within the grounds are the ruins of the Waltham Pumping Station, begun in 1873 and enlarged in 1896-97, along with an engineer's house and other early buildings. The cemetery was listed for its landscape design, funerary art and local history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Landscape architect Robert Morris Copeland (cemetery); Joseph H. Curtis, engineer, and Issac R. Scott, builder (1873 engine house); city architect Superintendent Patch and builder Robert Glancy (1896-97 main building)","architectural_style":"Garden (rural) cemetery landscape; pumping station buildings Romanesque Revival, Utilitarian and Vernacular; houses Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Cemetery in excellent condition with well maintained lawns, trees and generally good stones; the former pumping station is in poor condition, with roof collapse and falling brick.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.006278-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/7920/63792026/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/89001497.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001497/ea0ed33c6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/89001497/ea0ed33c6c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"User:Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waltham_MA_Mount_Feake_Cemetery.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:Waltham_MA_Mount_Feake_Cemetery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792026","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Feake_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6920735"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/mount-feake-cemetery-89001497/"}