In her will, Alice Hastings Minot, a famed Broadway actress, asked that she be inurned in a memorial “overlooking an ocean and be so designed that it would add beauty to the world.”
After an extensive West Coast search, the Santa Barbara Cemetery was selected. In 1951, her graceful mausoleum overlooking the Pacific Ocean was built, inspired by an Italian temple to Poseidon. Her husband, Charles Sedgewick Minot, joined her eight years later. They never even lived here.
It’s just one example of the abundant beauty and wealth of history found at the 57-acre burial grounds off Cabrillo Boulevard, across from the Andree Clark Bird Refuge at 901 Channel Drive…