Fairview Cemetery (Boston, Massachusetts)

Fairview Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	45 Fairview Avenue, Hyde Park, Massachusetts (extends into Dedham)
Coordinates	42°14′44″N 71°08′25″W / 42.24556°N 71.14028°W / 42.24556; -71.14028
Area	57.72 acres (23.36 ha)
Built	1892 (1892)
NRHP reference No.	09000717[1]
Added to NRHP	September 16, 2009

Fairview Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A small section of the cemetery is located in neighboring Dedham. The cemetery was established by the town of Hyde Park in 1892, and became the responsibility of the city of Boston when it annexed that town in 1912. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 16, 2009.^[1] It is the newest of Boston's cemeteries, and has more than 40,000 burials. It is the location where the City of Boston “bury indigent and unclaimed people”.