Maple Grove Cemetery (Mason, Michigan)

Maple Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located on West Columbia Street in Mason, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]

Maple Grove Cemetery
LocationW. Columbia St., Mason, Michigan
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built1844 (1844)
Architectural styleRomanesque Revival
MPSMason Michigan Historic MRA
NRHP reference No.85001237[1]
Added to NRHPJune 6, 1985

History

The initial, 1-1/2 acre portion of the Maple Grove Cemetery was leased from Charles Noble of Monroe, Michigan in 1844. An addition was made and formally platted by Isaac B. Woodhouse, a Mason businessman, in 1873. Several additions were made to the cemetery's acreage in the nineteenth century. The name was changed to "Maple Grove Cemetery" in 1897. The main entryway and receiving vault were was built in 1890, and the surrounding stone wall was added in 1934.[2]

Description

The Maple Grove Cemetery occupies an area of gently rolling hills, and contains a variety of nineteenth and twentieth-century monuments interspersed among curving paths and tall maple trees. An 1890 Romanesque Revival receiving vault is located near the entrance. It has a steeply pitched gable roof and a three-part facade divided by string courses: checkerboard stone patterns at the top, a section containing the top of the arched door opening in the middle, and the door itself on the lower level. A 1934 stone entrance gate/wall made of large blocks set in a matrix of smaller cobblestones surrounds the entrance.[2]

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References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Maple Grove Cemetery
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