Massachusetts National Cemetery, Bourne, MA

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The Massachusetts National Cemetery has become a standard used by the Department of Veterans Affairs for cemetery development. As project principal, Jerry Brown led the development of this historic cemetery on Otis Air Force Base and Camp Edwards. The master plan and maintenance standards for the 750-acre site employed a design concept based on the imagery of the New England orchard landscape. The palette of design elements and landscape types included open fields, meadows, orchards, stands of native trees, fieldstone walls, and winding roads. Mr. Brown oversaw preparation of the construction documents and supervised construction for six phases of development.

The project received the Presidential Design Awards Program - "Design Achievement Award," a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and an Honor Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects for “optimum use of the land and respectful stewardship of its natural resources.”