Robert Morris Copeland Sr. (December 11, 1830 – March 28, 1874) 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. Copeland's house in Belmont still stands within the Beaver Brook Reservation, the first state park in Massachusetts.
Projects
Cemeteries Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts Mount Feake Cemetery, Waltham, Massachusetts (1859) Oak Grove Cemetery in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Town, park, and estate plans Central Park, New York City (entered contest, did not win) Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts Ridley Park, Pennsylvania Armsmear, the Samuel Colt estate, Hartford, Connecticut Frederick Billings Estate, Woodstock, Vermont
Publications . Versions of the revised fifth edition (1866) and sixth edition (1867) are also freely available.
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