Garden Cemeteries of New England

by Trudy Irene Scee

In 1831 a new entity appeared on the American landscape: the garden cemetery. Meant to be places where the living could enjoy peace, tranquility and beauty, as well as to provide a final resting place for the dead, the garden cemeteries would forever change the culture of death and burial in the United States. The ideal cemetery would become one in which ornamental trees, bushes, flowers, and waterways graced the ever more artistic (for those who...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608939073
• ISBN13: 9781608939077
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 4.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"