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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1799/02/25 William Dawes Died William Dawes died in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He was believed to have been buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground, but modern research points to his resting place now being in his first wife's family plot in Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain.
1824/10/05 Ralph Bennet Forbes Died Ralph Bennet Forbes dies at about age 51 in Milton, Massachusetts. Mr Forbes is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
1848/03/28 Henry A S Dearborn Landscape Architect Roxbury City Council approves the purchase of the Seaverns family farms to establish a cemetery. Designed by Henry A S Dearborn, Forest Hills is a garden cemetery set in Greater Boston's Emerald Necklace.
1856/02/15 Margaret Perkins Forbes In Memoriam At sometime, Margaret Perkins Forbes is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in Boston's Jamaica Plain.
1860/00/00 Hammatt Billings Architect Dwight family lot
1888/06/08 James Freeman Clarke Died James Clarke dies at Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. The Clarke's home was on Woodside Ave, between Washington St and Forest Hills St. James is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.
1893/00/00 Daniel Chester French Sculptor Daniel French's sculpture, Death and the Sculptor, is dedicated. The bronze sculpture marks the grave of the brothers Joseph, James and Martin Milmore.
1900/02/12 Katherine Parkman Coolidge Died Katherine Parkman Coolidge dies. She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.
1900/06/06 Edmund Dwight Died Edmund Dwight dies in Boston, Massachusetts. He is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.
1905/02/27 Annie Crowninshield Warren Died Annie Casper Crowninshield Warren dies in Boston, Massachusetts. She is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
1953/11/27 Eugene O'Neill Died Eugene Gladstone O'Neill dies in Room 401 of the Sheraton Hotel on Bay State Road in Boston. Mr O'Neill is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston.
1962/09/03 E E Cummings Died Dies at Memorial Hospital in North Conway, New Hampshire. His cremated remains were buried in Lot 748 Althaeas Path, in Section 6, Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Boston.

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Particulars for Forest Hills Cemetery:
Architectural Style American Colonial
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Historic Use Cemetery
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Historic Use Mortuary
Owner Private
Landscape Style Rural Cemetery
Sight Category Site
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 17th November 2004

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Forest Hills Cemetery
Registry Address: 95 Forest Hills Ave.
Registry Number: 04001219
Resource Type: Site
Owner: Private
Architect: Billings, Hammatt; et.al.
Architectural Style: Colonial, Gothic revival
Area in Acres: 250
Contributing Buildings: 8
Contributing Sites: 2
Contributing Structures: 7
Contributing Objects: 23
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Art, Architecture, Social history, Community Planning and Development, Landscape architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1848, 1868, 1893
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery, Mortuary
Current Function: Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery Mortuary

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