76 Coolidge Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Services
All charges must be paid in full at time of burial; no payment plans available. Prices effective April 15, 2023.
The 66-acre cemetery features landscaped grounds with perennial islands and systematic tree management. A Receiving Tomb and Chapel exist on site with potential for columbarium development under the Cemetery Master Plan. The facility maintains a Materials Yard for service operations. Visitor access includes planned pedestrian connectivity with Mount Auburn Cemetery and Greenough Boulevard. Office hours are limited to weekdays 7AM-3PM.
Services are limited to immediate burial needs with no pre-need sales permitted.
Cambridge Cemetery operates as a city-run burial ground spanning 66 acres on Coolidge Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The cemetery serves as the final resting place for Medal of Honor recipients Joseph F. Scott and Alphonso M. Lunt, literary figures Henry and William James and William Dean Howells, and Baseball Hall of Famers John Clarkson and Timothy Keefe. As a government-operated facility, it maintains strict eligibility requirements limiting lot sales to Cambridge residents at time of death. The cemetery has pursued sustainable practices including rain barrel irrigation, on-site leaf mulching, and elimination of cement vault requirements for burials.
This is where Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) is buried she was an American astronomer. Her discovery of how to effectively measure vast astronomical distances led to a shift in the understanding of the scale and nature of the universe. Nomination of Lea...
Shame on Cambridge for having no wooded areas, no forest, no large parks...just this 66 acre patch of completely unused land with a 10 foot gate keeping people out all around it... While homeless people sleep on sidewalks and Cambridge residents have to travel 30 minutes to the ...
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Every single person employed was courteous and respectful.
Not one person has answered the phone in the past week. Good thing cremation burials isn’t like a priority.
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