Fairview Cemetery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

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Fairview Cemetery is a historic 4-acre graveyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico, located at 1134 Cerrillos Road. It was established in the 1880s (built in 1884) by James T. Newhall and Preston H. Kuhn as the town’s main non‑Catholic cemetery. The oldest gravestones date to the 1860s and were moved here from the downtown Masonic and Odd Fellows graveyard during 1895–1901. About 3,700 people are buried at Fairview. The cemetery, designed in a Pueblo style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently operated as a nonprofit by the Fairview Cemetery Preservation Association, which holds an annual mid‑May cleanup and a general membership meeting. In 2013 a cement wall was added to help deter prairie dogs. Notable people buried here include Sylvanus Morley, Gerald Cassidy, Thomas B. Catron, Isabel Lancaster Eckles, Maximilian Frost, Luis Gold, Miguel Antonio Otero, John Pflueger, Carlos Vierra, and other prominent Santa Fe residents.