Hillside Cemetery (North Adams, Massachusetts)

	Hillside Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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	Hillside Cemetery
Location	North Adams, Massachusetts
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Built	1798
Architect	Col. F.W. Merriam
MPS	North Adams MRA
NRHP Reference #	01000722
Added to NRHP	July 19, 2001

Hillside Cemetery is a historic cemetery on West Main Street between Brown Street and Charles Street in North Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Located on the western fringe of the city, the earliest portions of the cemetery date to 1798; it is the community's oldest public burying ground. The cemetery is divided by Massachusetts Route 2, with the older section to the north and the younger section (laid out in 1858) to the south. The cemetery's location at the foot of Mount Greylock gives it excellent views of the surrounding area, and of the urban core of North Adams.^[2]

The older portion of the cemetery is less formally laid out than the newer section. It includes a fairly steeply sloped hill and a bowl-shaped valley, and is lined by grassy paths laid out in a grid. The oldest graves are at the top of the hill, the oldest dating to 1798. The southern portion of the cemetery is much larger, and is laid out with narrow roadways, most of which were in place by 1878. The terrain of the southern section is similar to that of the northern, also featuring a hill and valley. The most prominent memorial is the Tinker Mausoleum (1926).^[2]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]