Mount Auburn Cemetery
Gregory Ghazil is an experienced professional with a strong background in operations and preservation management. Currently serving as the Operator at Greenway Artisan Market since May 2021, Gregory also holds the position of Preservation Manager at Mount Auburn Cemetery, a role maintained since July 2014. As the Founder and Co-Owner of The Somerville Flea, established in June 2012, Gregory demonstrates entrepreneurial skills alongside a commitment to community engagement. Gregory's educational background includes a degree in Preservation Carpentry from North Bennet Street School (2008-2010) and earlier studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1990-1994).
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Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned. Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.