Скачать или смотреть Postcard: ‘Abbey’ is in its name, but neither monks, nor nuns lived in this historic KC building

Though it’s called the Forest Hill Abbey, this elegant Roman Renaissance structure is actually a mausoleum in one of the city’s most historic cemeteries.

Forest Hill Cemetery at 69th Street and Troost Avenue opened for burials in 1888.

Only twenty-four years earlier, that same plot of land played an important role in the Battle of Westport. Troops led by General Sterling Price were pushed back and defeated by Union forces there. Some 70 Confederate soldiers who died in the fighting are buried in Forest Hill.

So are Tom Pendergast, Harry S Truman’s parents, Buck O’Neil, Satchel Paige and Kate Spade to name just a few.

The cemetery originally included two lakes, and its grounds were designed by George Kessler, the architect of Kansas City’s parks and boulevards system.

But this postcard doesn’t address any of that.

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