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Evergreen Cemetery (Portland, Maine)

FieldValue
nameEvergreen Cemetery
imageFile:Wilde Memorial Chapel.jpg
captionWilde Memorial Chapel
location672 Stevens Ave.
Portland, Maine
coordinates
locmapinMaine#USA
area239 acre (cemetery size)
140 acre (National Register listing size)
built1855
architectCharles R. Goodell; Frederick A. Tompson
addedJune 18, 1992
refnum92000791

Portland, Maine 140 acre (National Register listing size) Evergreen Cemetery is a garden-style cemetery on Stevens Avenue in the Deering neighborhood of Portland, Maine. With 239 acre of land, it is the largest cemetery in the state. Established in 1855, in what was then Westbrook, the cemetery is home to one of the state's most prominent collections of funerary art. The 140 acre historical portion of the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

History

The cemetery was established in 1855 in Saccarappa (Westbrook) and became the area's main cemetery after the Western Cemetery in downtown Portland. The original parcel appears to have been about 45 acre, which was repeatedly enlarged beginning about 1869. The cemetery holds the records for Forest City Cemetery in South Portland. In April 2014, it was announced the cemetery would add an additional 800 to 1,000 gravesites near the main entrance while also adding a columbarium, which will hold cremated remains above ground. An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people are interred in the cemetery.

Description

The main areas of the cemetery are laid out in with winding curvilinear paths, typical of the rural cemetery movement popular in the 19th century, while later sections of the cemetery are typically (but not entirely) laid out in a more rectilinear fashion. A number of architecturally significant mausoleums are located in the cemetery, the most prominent of which are the Chisholm Tomb and the F.O.J. Smith Tomb; the former is a small-scale Classical Revival replica of the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple in Nîmes, France.

Wilde Memorial Chapel

Wilde Memorial Chapel is a Gothic-style chapel. It was built as a mortuary chapel by Falmouth native Mary Ellen Lunt Wilde in 1890. It was designed by Portland architect Frederick A. Tompson and gifted to the city in 1902. The granite building is used for both memorial and wedding services, with a maximum capacity of 105.

Civil War veterans

Evergreen Cemetery contains the remains of about 1,400 veterans of the American Civil War. A memorial to Civil War veterans was donated by brothers Henry (then Governor of Maine) and Judge Nathan Cleaves and dedicated on May 30, 1895. The monument consists of a metal soldier standing atop a granite base.

Notable interments

  • John Appleton, congressman and assistant secretary of state
  • James Phinney Baxter, businessman and Mayor of Portland
  • Carroll Lynwood Beedy, congressman
  • Hugh J. Chisholm, paper magnate
  • Asa William Henry Clapp, congressman
  • Seth F. Clark, state legislator
  • George Cleeve, settler and founder of Portland
  • Nathan Clifford, US Attorney General and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
  • Lydia Neal Dennett, abolitionist and suffragist
  • Neal Dow, mayor, general, candidate for president, and father of the Prohibition Movement
  • Francis H. Fassett, architect
  • James D. Fessenden, general
  • Francis Fessenden, general
  • Samuel Fessenden, lieutenant
  • Samuel C. Fessenden, congressman
  • Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden, congressman
  • William P. Fessenden, congressman, senator and secretary of the treasury
  • Frank Fixaris, sportscaster
  • Elbridge Gerry, congressman
  • Charles Goddard (1879–1951), playwright and screenwriter
  • Robert Christian Hale, lieutenant and congressman
  • Charles Badger Hall, US Army major general
  • Obed Hall, congressman
  • Asher Crosby Hinds, congressman
  • Darius H. Ingraham, diplomat, lawyer, mayor
  • Seth Larrabee, attorney
  • Charles Thornton Libby, historian, genealogist and lawyer
  • Mary King Longfellow, painter
  • John Lynch, congressman
  • Charles Mattocks, general
  • Joseph C. Noyes, congressman
  • Albion Parris Governor, congressman, judge.
  • John J. Perry, congressman
  • William Lebaron Putnam, mayor
  • Thomas Brackett Reed, congressman and Speaker of the US House of Representatives
  • Henry P. Rines, hotelier
  • Ether Shepley, senator
  • George Foster Shepley, general
  • Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith, congressman
  • John Calvin Stevens, architect
  • Lorenzo De Medici Sweat, congressman
  • Henry Goddard Thomas, general
  • William W. Thomas Jr., politician
  • Charles W. Walton, congressman

Notes

References

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  2. "Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, 1869".
  3. As of March 2011, only {{convert. 110. acre. ha were used for cemetery-related activities.[http://www.pressherald.com/news/cemetery-plans-would-uproot-gardeners_2011-03-22.html Portland cemetery's plans would uproot gardeners] ''[[Portland Press Herald]]'', March 22, 2011
  4. Miller, Kevin. (April 14, 2014). "Portland plans expansion of Evergreen Cemetery". [[Portland Press Herald]].
  5. ["NRHP nomination for Evergreen Cemetery"]({{NRHP url). National Park Service.
  6. [http://www.friendsofevergreen.org/evergreen-cemetery/wilde-memorial-chapel/ Wilde Memorial Chapel] Friends of Evergreen Cemetery.
  7. "Portland Maine Public Service site: Wilde Chapel".
  8. (4 September 2014). "Meet the Heroes of Evergreen Cemetery: Part II".
  9. (2019). "Garden Cemeteries of New England". Down East Books.
  10. (March 15, 1951). "Seth F. Clark Dies In Hospital". Portland Press Herald.
  11. McNelly, Sue. "Biographical Sketch of Lydia Louisa Neal Dennett". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920.
  12. (14 May 1914). "Simple Services Marked Last Rites for Major General Charles B. Hall". Biddeford-Saco Journal.
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