The largest green space in Everett, Woodlawn Cemetery was laid out in 1850 as a rural cemetery modeled on Mount Auburn Cemetery (NC1) in Cambridge. The plan is typical with its curvilinear roads that conform to the natural topography. In 1897, William Hart Taylor designed the main office building, a yellow brick structure with red tile roof fronted by a corner tower with colonnaded belfry, to the left of the stone and terra-cotta gates, replacing the original lodge and gatehouse constructed in 1850. On axis with the entrance gates inside the cemetery, Loring and Phipps designed the Gothic Revival chapel in 1911, built of ashlar granite with limestone trim and highlighted by an offset octagonal tower and porte-cochere. In the 1980s and 1990s, three mausolea in a more minimal Gothic Revival style with red tile roofs were built near the chapel.

The privately operated Woodlawn Cemetery borders the municipal burying ground of Glenwood Cemetery, established in the 1890s when Everett was incorporated as a city.