 David Bates Douglass, a military and civilian engineer, working in the capacity as a consulting architect, designed the landscape layout of Albany Rural Cemetery, 1845–1846.He modeled his design of the Albany Rural Cemetery, as well as his subsequent and final one, "Mount Hermon Cemetery" (1848), in a rural area outside of Quebec City, Canada, upon his first design, the highly acclaimed Green-Wood Cemetery, in what at the time was a rural section of Brooklyn.All three of Douglass' rural, garden cemeteries have been conferred a historic status, by their respective nations.