Mount Auburn Cemetery

The Egyptian Revival Gateway—first constructed in wood in 1832 before being rebuilt with Quincy granite ten years later—was designed to welcome visitors into the Cemetery to orient them to a new type of American public landscape and was the

I was the slightest in the house-
I took the smallest room-
At night, my little lamp, the book-
And one Geranium-…

Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) was first identified at Mount Auburn Cemetery in August 2025, in the fourth instar nymph form. It has been moving north from Pennsylvania since it was first identified there as an invasive insect in 2014, having been imported unknowingly likely on shipments from China or Vietnam where it is native. SLF is of concern because of its extraordinary r...