Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery is a garden cemetery in Cambridge, United States. It was established in 1831, covering 71 hectares. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wikidata records 738 notable interments here, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Abraham Maslow, B. F. Skinner.

At a glance

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Opening hours

• Monday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Tuesday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Wednesday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Thursday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Friday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Saturday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
• Sunday: 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM

Source: Google Places. Last checked 2026-07-23. Hours can change, confirm with the cemetery before visiting.

Notable interments

738 notable figures are documented here in Wikidata, each with a Wikipedia article and recorded burial place. The 25 most widely covered are listed below. Browse all 738, or take the JSON record.

Of Mount Auburn Cemetery's 738 documented notable interments, recorded occupations include politician (16%), university teacher (12%), writer (12%), lawyer (9%), physician (5%).

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), novelist, translator, professor
• Abraham Maslow (1908–1970), university teacher, psychologist
• B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), ethologist, autobiographer, philosopher
• Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983), diarist, designer, philosopher
• John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher, university teacher, pedagogue
• Julian Seymour Schwinger (1918–1994), theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, non-fiction writer
• Claude Shannon (1916–2001), cryptographer, geneticist, university teacher
• Robert Burns Woodward (1917–1979), university teacher, chemist
• Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), literary scholar, slavist, philologist
• Q122972 (1807–1873), scientific collector, racial theorist, glaciologist
• Theodore William Richards (1868–1928), chemist
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), medical author, novelist, physician writer
• Robert Nozick (1938–2002), philosopher, university teacher, political scientist
• Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), pharmacologist, researcher, biochemist
• Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), newspaperperson, women's rights activist, autobiographer
• Gordon Allport (1897–1967), research fellow, psychologist
• Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), theologian, author, writer
• James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), essayist, publisher, literary critic
• Williamina Fleming (1857–1911), astronomer
• Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), novelist, university teacher, writer
• Anne Revere (1903–1990), television actor, film actor, stage actor
• Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919), university teacher, astrophysicist, astronomer
• Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920), novelist, children's writer, writer
• Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874–1925), socialite, poet, writer
• Winslow Homer (1836–1910), printmaker, painter, illustrator

Common questions

Where is Mount Auburn Cemetery?

Mount Auburn Cemetery is in Cambridge, United States, at coordinates 42.3706, -71.1458.

When was Mount Auburn Cemetery established?

Mount Auburn Cemetery was established in 1831, according to Wikidata.

Who is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery?

Wikidata documents 738 notable interments at Mount Auburn Cemetery, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Abraham Maslow, B. F. Skinner, Buckminster Fuller, John Rawls.

Records and sources

• Wikidata: Q1950363 (CC0, the source for the facts on this page)
• Wikipedia article
• Burial records on Find a Grave (external, not affiliated)

Related terms

National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)Notable intermentInterment

Resting Places. "Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, United States." restingplaces.site. Wikidata source record: Q1950363. https://restingplaces.site/cemeteries/mount-auburn-cemetery/

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