The North Burial Ground is a 110-acre (0.45 km2) cemetery in Providence, Rhode Island dating to 1700, the first public cemetery in Providence. It is located north of downtown Providence, bounded by North Main Street, Branch Avenue, the Moshassuck River, and Cemetery Street. Its main entrance is at the junction of Branch and North Main. The burial ground is one of the larger municipal cemeteries in Southern New England, and it accepts 220 to 225 burials per year.
North Burial Ground
Mowry Tavern (now demolished), a stone-ender on Abbott St. as it looked ca. 1885, with the Cemetery behind it
Early 1900s postcard of North Burial Ground
Entry flag and marker to North Burial Ground
The stone-ender is a unique style of Rhode Island architecture that developed in the 17th century where one wall in a house is made up of a large stone chimney.
1653 Roger Mowry House (Providence) diagram from Norman Isham's 1895 book [1]
Eleazer Arnold House, 1691, Lincoln, Rhode Island
Epenetus Olney House in North Providence, demolished by 1900
Arthur Fenner House (c. 1655) in Cranston, demolished 1886