Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007
Forest Hills Cemetery is located in Massachusetts
Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery is located in the United States
Forest Hills Cemetery
Location95 Forest Hills Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Area250 acres (100 ha)
Built1848 (1848)
ArchitectBillings, Hammatt; et al.
Architectural styleColonial and Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.04001219[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 17, 2004

Forest Hills Cemetery is a historic 275-acre (111.3 ha) rural cemetery, greenspace, arboretum, and sculpture garden in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. The cemetery was established in 1848 as a public municipal cemetery for Roxbury, Massachusetts, but was privatized when Roxbury was annexed to Boston in 1868.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

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