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Description
Pictured in circa 1930 is the main entrance to the Masonic Lawn Cemetery at 2700 Riverside Boulevard. Riverside Boulevard runs north-south in the foreground, while tracks for the Pacific Gas and Electric streetcar are also visible. Within five years of this photograph being taken, a brick cemetery office would be built just beyond the entrance. The seven-and-three-quarter acre property was acquired from the City of Sacramento in the 1920s to relieve crowding in the Masonic plots at the City Cemetery, just to the north. Upon opening, the standard grave site ran from 35 to 65 dollars while a 5 person plot ran for 300 dollars and 10 person plot 500 dollars. Internment at Masonic Lawn was reserved for members of the fraternity.
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