Robert Morris Copeland
Robert Morris Copeland, Sr. was a landscape architect, town planner and Union Army officer in the American Civil War. Along with his partner H.W.S. Cleveland of the firm Cleveland and Copeland, he is known chiefly for his cemetery plans, most notably Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts as well as contemporaneous designs around Massachusetts and New England.Biography
Copeland was born on December 11, 1830 to Benjamin and Julia Fellows Copeland, who lived in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College, and opened a Boston-based landscape gardening firm with Horace Cleveland in 1854, which became known as Cleveland and Copeland.
Copeland died suddenly on March 28, 1874 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is buried at his Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.Projects
Cemeteries
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts
- Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Oak Grove Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Town, park, and estate plans
- Central Park, New York City
- Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
- Ridley Park, Pennsylvania
- Armsmear, the Samuel Colt estate, Hartford, Connecticut
- Frederick Billings Estate, Woodstock, Vermont
Publications
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