Mount Auburn Cemetery
Sean McDonnell is the President of the Architectural Heritage Foundation, Inc. since 1997 and has served on the Board of Trustees at Mount Auburn Cemetery since 2008, currently holding the position of Treasurer. Prior to these roles, Sean McDonnell worked as a Project Architect at Robert Lucetti Associates from 1992 to 1998, contributing to a variety of projects including residential renovations and office fit-outs. Sean McDonnell holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (BSAD) and a Master of Architecture (MARCH) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where studies were completed from 1985 to 1992.
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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.