Mount Auburn Cemetery
Jim Holman is a seasoned professional in the cemetery development and sales industry, currently serving as President of Fairbanks Family in America since August 2022. Holman has a long-standing tenure at Mount Auburn Cemetery, starting in 1989, where responsibilities have included roles such as Director of Cemetery Development, overseeing the growth of burial spaces, and Director of Cemetery Sales. Additionally, Holman held the position of President of the New England Cemetery Association from June 2018 to June 2019, leading initiatives for education within the cemetery sector. Prior experience includes an associate role at Joseph R. Henry & Associates, specializing in landscape architecture and planning. Holman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, earned between 1981 and 1985.
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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.