Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)

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Mount Hope Cemetery District
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A view of Mount Hope Cemetery
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine) is located in Maine
Mount Hope Cemetery (Bangor, Maine)
Location U.S. 2, Bangor, Maine
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Built 1834
Architect Bryant,Charles G.; Mansur,Wilfred E.
Architectural style Greek Revival, Late Victorian, English Half-Timbered style
NRHP Reference # 74000187[1]
Added to NRHP December 04, 1974

Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor, Maine, is the second oldest garden cemetery in the United States. It was designed by architect Charles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by the Bangor Horticultural Society soon after,[2]:15 the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city. The cemetery was modeled after Mt. Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Boston, Massachusetts.[2]:15 Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping mirrored exactly that of Boston.[citation needed]

The land was purchased in July 1834 and consisted of 50 acres of Lot 27, which was set along State Street - at the time known as County Road and later the "Road to Orono" - and the Penobscot River. It did not include all of the cemetery's central hill; instead, it cut across the crest of the hill and met up with what would later be Mount Hope Avenue. The land was approximately 660 by 3,300 feet (200 by 1,010 m) with the longer side travelling north-south along State Street. Part of the land - approximately 12 acres - was to be set aside for horticultural activities, and the rest of the land was to be used as a cemetery.[2]:17

The preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th- and early-20th-century elite, the cemetery includes the gravesites of a U.S. Vice President,[note 1] two U.S. Senators,[note 2] eleven U.S. Congressmen,[note 3] two U.S. Ambassadors, five Governors of Maine,[note 4] eight Civil War Generals,[note 5] and numerous "lumber barons" and other local businessmen and politicians.[citation needed] Actors Richard Golden and Ralph Sipperly are also buried there.[3]

The movie Pet Sematary was filmed in Mount Hope.[4]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Hannibal Hamlin
  2. ↑ Hamlin and Arthur R. Gould
  3. ↑ Including Hamlin, John A. Peters, Samuel F. Hersey, George W. Ladd, Charles Stetson, Francis Carr, Charles A. Boutelle, Harris M. Plaisted, John G. Utterback, and Samuel Thatcher
  4. ↑ Hamlin, William D. Williamson, Harris M. Plaisted, Frederick W. Plaisted, and Israel Washburn Jr.
  5. ↑ John F. Appleton, Charles Hamlin, Cyrus Hamlin, Daniel Chaplin, Harris M. Plaisted, Charles W. Roberts, George Varney, and Daniel White

References

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