Granary Burying Ground
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The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, including Paul Revere, the five victims of the Boston Massacre, and three signers of the Declaration of Independence: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. The cemetery has 2,345 grave-markers, but historians estimate that as many as 5,000 people are buried in it. The cemetery is adjacent to Park Street Church, behind the Boston Athenaeum and immediately across from Suffolk University Law School. It is a site on Boston's Freedom Trail. The cemetery's Egyptian revival gate and fence were designed by architect Isaiah Rogers (1800–1869), who designed an identical gate for Newport's Touro Cemetery.
Granary Burying Ground
Old Granary Burying Ground showing Hancock monument, ca. 1898. Boston Pictorial Archive, Boston Public Library
Entrance to the Granary Burying Ground as it appeared circa 1881 with the European Elms present
Granary Burying Ground with Suffolk Law School across the street (2008)
Tremont Street
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Tremont Street is a major thoroughfare in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremont Street in front of King's Chapel
Gleason's Publishing Hall, corner of Tremont and Bromfield St., 1851
Horticultural Hall, 19th century, photo by John P. Soule
Intersection of Tremont St., Pleasant St., and Shawmut Ave., 1896