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Wildwood Cemetery

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Wildwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Palmer and Wildwood Streets in Winchester, Massachusetts. The cemetery was founded in 1851 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. This cemetery was established using part of the $3000 gift from Colonel William P. Winchester that was donated on condition that the town be named after him. It was one of the first public spaces laid out after Winchester was incorporated, on land just west of the former Middlesex Canal. It is laid out in the rural cemetery fashion popular in the mid-19th century, with winding lanes a country landscaping. The designer was Amasa Farrier of neighboring Stoneham, who used as his inspiration the published works of Andrew Jackson Downing and John Claudius Loudon. Land was purchased in 1851, and was ready for use the following year. Older graves from the small cemetery at the First Congregational Church were transferred here in 1853. As a result, the oldest dated burials are in 1805. The entrance gateway was added as part of a landscape design developed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1937.Notable persons buried in the cemetery include Massachusetts Governor Samuel Walker McCall (1851–1923), Rev. Howard James Chidley (1878–1966), engineer Harold Kilbrith Barrows (1873–1954), linguist Joshua Whatmough (1897–1964), artist Joseph Foxcroft Cole (1837–1892), and artist Dana Pond (1881–1962). Other prominent burials include philanthropist and peace activist Edwin Ginn, local developer David Skilling, and Harrison Parker, owner of a local mill. It is also the burial ground for many members of locally prominent families, including members of the Symmes, Locke, Richardson, and Johnson families.

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Snug Gables is a historic house built for Thomas Dreier by Frank Chouteau Brown in Winchester, MA. It was built in 1920 and named after Dreier's wife, Blanche "Snug" Drier. Dreier ran the "Thomas Dreier Service" out of a print shop in the basement, which distributed advertising publications and motivational short stories to area business leaders. After Brown completed a project in 1923 to improve the grounds, it was featured in the August 1923 US edition of what was then known as Country Life Magazine. The house was also featured in advertisements for La Touraine coffee in newspapers throughout New England and New York. One of these was titled "Where Thomas Dreier Lives and Works," describing the household's reputation for hospitality. Another version entitled "Mrs. Thomas Dreier Keeps Here 21 Separate Accounts" notes the organization and careful approach of the matriarch, which leads her to serve La Touraine coffee.Dreier wrote "Sunshine on the Business Trail" at Snug Gables, and several of the short stories within describe the house. Short works by Dreier are engraved on bronze plaques around the property. The Dreiers sold Snug Gables in 1933. After several short term tenants, and the Armstrong and Knox families, each of which owned it for more than a decade, it was purchased in 1968 by the noted physician Alexander Leaf. It remained in the Leaf family until shortly after Alexander's death in 2013.Mr. Brown's architectural drawings and photos of the house are on file at Historic New England. Mr. Dreier's records also contain detailed information about the property, and are on file at the University of South Florida. Snug Gables is listed in the Society of Architectural Historians "Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston."

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