Forest Hills Cemetery
Forest Hills Cemetery | |
Forest Hills Cemetery entrance in August 2007 | |
| Location | 95 Forest Hills Ave. Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Area | 250 acres (100 ha) |
| Built | 1848 |
| Architect | Billings, Hammatt; et al. |
| Architectural style | Colonial and Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 04001219 |
| Added to NRHP | November 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, United States. 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.