Forest Hills Cemetery

Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007
Map
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.