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Silent City on a Hill

Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery
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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.
BLANCHE M. G. LINDEN (1946-2014) was an independent scholar with special interest in landscape, architectural, and urban history. Her numerous publications in women's studies, visual and material culture, and American history include Spring Grove: Celebrating 150 Years.
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