Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor

Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor
Mount Hope Cemetery District
Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor is located in Maine
Location: U.S. 2, Bangor, Maine
Coordinates: 44°49′29″N 68°43′28″W / 44.82472°N 68.72444°W / 44.82472; -68.72444Coordinates: 44°49′29″N 68°43′28″W / 44.82472°N 68.72444°W / 44.82472; -68.72444
Built: 1834
Architect: Bryant,Charles G.; Mansur,Wilfred E.
Architectural style: Greek Revival, Late Victorian, English Half-Timbered style
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 74000187[1]
Added to NRHP: December 04, 1974

Mt. 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, the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city, and likely modeled after Mt. Auburn Cemetery (1831) in Boston, Massachusetts. Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping exactly mirrored that of Boston.[citation needed]

The preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th and early 20th century elite, the cemetery includes the gravesites of a U.S. Vice President[2], two U.S. Senators[3], eleven U.S. Congressmen[4], two U.S. Ambassadors, five Governors of Maine[5], eight Civil War Generals [6], and numerous "lumber barons" and other local businessmen and politicians.[citation needed] Actors Richard Golden and Ralph Sipperly are also buried there.

The movie Pet Sematary was filmed in Mount Hope.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Hannibal Hamlin
  3. ^ Hamlin and Arthur R. Gould
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Hamlin, William D. Williamson, Harris M. Plaisted, Frederick W. Plaisted, and Israel Washburn Jr.
  6. ^ John F. Appleton, Charles Hamlin, Cyrus Hamlin, Daniel Chaplin, Harris M. Plaisted, Charles W. Roberts, George Varney, and Daniel White

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