Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery

This award-winning book offers an insightful inquiry into the intellectual and cultural origins of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first landscape in the United States to be designed in the picturesque style. Inspired by developments in England and France, Mount Auburn, founded in 1831, became the prototype for the "rural cemetery" movement and was an important precursor of many of America's public parks, beginning with New York City's Central Park.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Library of American Landscape History
Published: 01/01/2007
ISBN: 9781952620133
Pages: 408