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User:RGKMA/sandbox/Holyhood Cemetery

Coordinates: 42°19′12″N 71°10′1″W / 42.32000°N 71.16694°W / 42.32000; -71.16694
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Holyhood Cemetery
View of the cemetery's chapel (2011)
Details
Established1857
Location
CountryUnited States
TypeRural cemetery
Size35 acres (14 ha)
WebsiteCemetery website
Find a GraveHolyhood Cemetery
Holyhood Cemetery
RGKMA/sandbox/Holyhood Cemetery is located in Massachusetts
RGKMA/sandbox/Holyhood Cemetery
RGKMA/sandbox/Holyhood Cemetery is located in the United States
RGKMA/sandbox/Holyhood Cemetery
Coordinates42°19′12″N 71°10′1″W / 42.32000°N 71.16694°W / 42.32000; -71.16694
ArchitectPatrick Keely
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPSBrookline MRA
NRHP reference No.85003275[1]
Added to NRHPOctober 17, 1985

Kennedy family

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Holyhood Cemetery is best known for being the final resting place of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (parents of U.S. President John, U.S. Attorney General Robert, and U.S. Senator Edward). Their daughter, Rosemary Kennedy, is also buried here, along with several other family members.

The last child born to President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was also buried at Holyhood Cemetery, until being removed to Arlington National Cemetery, along with a stillborn daughter originally buried in Newport, Rhode Island, following their father's assassination and burial there in 1963.

Others

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Holyhood is also the final resting place of former Boston Mayor and U.S. Representative Patrick Collins (mayor) with a memorial sculpted by Cyrus Edwin Dallin, Cardinal John Wright, golfer Francis Ouimet; baseball player George Wright; Irish poet and journalist John Boyle O'Reilly; author, poet, journalist and diplomat James Jeffrey Roche, and lightbulb pioneer and engineer Martha J. B. Thomas. John Geoghan, an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist is also interned there.


  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.