2405 Forest Home Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. County/parish: Milwaukee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 03, 1980. NRIS 80000166.
4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures.
Forest Home Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery and arboretum located in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is the final resting place of many of the city's famed beer barons, politicians and social elite. Both the cemetery and its Landmark Chapel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and were declared a Milwaukee Landmark in 1973.
The cemetery is run by a non-profit organization held in public trust. Profits from each sale are reinvested to insure continual care of the buildings and land. Its Victorian landscape contains over 100 species of trees, along with many ornate statues, crypts and monuments.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106781642