Collection: Forest Hill & Calvary Cemetery - Kansas City

Established in 1888, Forest Hill & Calvary Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri is located near the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Rockhurst University and the historic battlefield of Westport. It is the combination of the historic Forest Hill Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery. The cemetery is located at Sixty-Ninth Street and Troost Avenue in the heart of Kansas City. Consisting of approximately 160 acres, the grounds feature winding tree-lined roads with rolling hills. There are many unique artistic monuments, and the grave markers read as a who’s who of Kansas City history.

The cemetery originally had 104 species of domestic and foreign trees. In fact, Theodore Roosevelt during his last visit to Kansas City before his death remarked that the grounds consisted of the finest collection of trees he had ever seen.

George Kessler served as the landscape architect when the cemetery was created. Kessler is renown in Kansas City for beautifying the city with its cherished boul