Mount Hope Cemetery District | |
 A view of Mount Hope Cemetery | |
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| Location | U.S. 2,Bangor, Maine |
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| Coordinates | 44°49′29″N68°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 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000187[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 04, 1974 |
Mount Hope Cemetery inBangor, Maine, is the second oldestgarden cemetery in the United States. It was designed by architectCharles G. Bryant in 1834 and built by theBangor Horticultural Society soon after,[2]: 15 the same year that Bangor was incorporated as a city. The cemetery was modeled afterMount Auburn Cemetery (1831) inBoston, Massachusetts.[2]: 15 Bangor was at that time a frontier boom-town, and much of its architecture and landscaping was modeled after that of Boston.[citation needed] The site has been listed on theNational Register of Historic Places.
Purchased in July 1834, the land consisted of 50-acre (20 ha) of Lot 27, which was set along State Street – at the time known as County Road and later the "Road to Orono" – and thePenobscot 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 extending north–south along State Street. Approximately 12-acre (4.9 ha) was to be set aside for horticultural activities, and the rest of the land was to be used as a cemetery.[2]: 17
This was the preferred resting ground for Bangor's 19th- and early-20th-century elite. The cemetery includes the gravesites ofHannibal Hamlin, aU.S. Vice President who had also held office as Congressman, US Senator and Governor of Maine, aU.S. Senator,[note 1] tenU.S. Congressmen,[note 2] twoU.S. Ambassadors, fourGovernors of Maine,[note 3] eightCivil War Generals,[note 4] and numerous "lumber barons" and other local businessmen and politicians.[citation needed] ActorsRichard Golden andRalph Sipperly are also buried there.[3]
The moviePet Sematary was filmed in Mount Hope Cemetery.[4]
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