Excellence and Innovation in
Preservation
Over the past year, Mount Auburn has embarked on many ambitious and important projects to conserve historic and artistic treasures on our grounds and to preserve the
historic records found in our archives. Many of these projects have been made possible
with individual gifts and grants made to the Friends of Mount Auburn. The fiscal year
highlights include:
• the conservation of five Civil War-era monuments and new landscape enhancements
surrounding a sixth monument, in conjunction with the Sesquicentennial of the Civil
War;
• the completion of preservation work on one monument by James Wilson Alexander
MacDonald and another monument for Isaac Fay;
• a Cemetery-hosted and staff-led symposium on the uses of lead in the preservation of
Our Mission
fences, monuments and mausolea, Reflectingprofessional colleagues in August of 2013;
held for the vision of our founders in 1831,
Mount Auburn:
• the digitization of all Cemetery records related to Mount Auburn’s 30 most significant
monuments, as part of a two-year Institute of Museum the dead in a landscape project to
• Commemorates and Library Services of
research, catalog, document and asses the exceptional beauty and tranquility; providing
conditions of these monuments.
comfort and inspiration to the bereaved and
the public as a whole;
• Protects and improves our historic landscape,
monuments, architecture, horticultural and
natural resources, and;
• Provides comprehensive cemetery services of the
highest standards to persons of all faiths, in
so far as such services are consistent with the
protection and preservation of Mount Auburn.
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