Forest Hills is a part of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

In general, the area slopes upward from Hyde Park Ave and downward from Walk Hill Street.

Forest Hills is primarily residential, although a number of small businesses are located along Hyde Park Avenue.

Single family homes predominate south of Walk Hill Street, but triple deckers dominate near the train station.

For his efforts in that conflict and subsequent negotiations, the leaders of Massachusetts Bay Colony awarded him 278 acres (1.1 km2) untamed in what is now the Forest Hills area of Jamaica Plain.

In 1845, the Welds sold a large piece of land that would later become the Woodbourne area to William Minot, a fellow Yankee farmer.

Some lived here year round; for others it was a rural retreat from Boston's summer heat and seasonal cholera outbreaks.

In the early 20th century, the arrival of public transportation brought increasing numbers of working-class people and rich Yankee families abandoned Forest Hills.

The blocks south of Walk Hill Street were once regarded as the White City area of Jamaica Plain.

In 1914, four apartment buildings covered with light stucco were erected on Hyde Park Ave far South of the train station.

White City Cleansers was renamed around 2003; its sign was the last prominent reminder of the name that was once given to this section of Jamaica Plain.

This area was developed into house lots between 1890 and 1933 by financier Robert Winsor in an effort to create a sort of utopian community for middle-class families.

The most distinctive homes in this section are designed to resemble gabled English cottages and are situated around a common courtyard.

While the means to flatten out this terrain was readily available, developers chose to retain the uneven character of the landscape to preserve a country-like estate feel.

[6] There is a baseball field at the top of Wachusett Street which is bordered by trees and adjacent to the well-maintained Parkman Playground.

Together these cemeteries form a "dead area" that separates Forest Hills from the nearest sections of Mattapan and Roxbury.

The school was named after Francis Parkman, local scholar whose summer home overlooked Jamaica Pond.

The later program also occupies space in the Upham Church and school officials are considering expansion into one or more of the properties that comprise St.

Catholics of other ethnic groups (particularly Italians but also French, Poles, Portuguese, Scots and others) were also present but were collectively outnumbered by the Irish.

Although small numbers of non-Catholics remained in the area, for the second half of the 20th century, "Forest Hills" and "St. Andrew's Parish" were virtually synonymous.

Some locals resisted these changes and left the area in the process sometimes called "urban flight", further reducing the number of active parishioners.

Another strong factor in the decline of attendance and revenue at St. Andrew's was dissatisfaction with the archdiocese in the wake of the Church sex scandal which came to light at this time.

John J. Geoghan, one of the most notorious molesters among Catholic clergy, served at St. Andrew's from 1974 to 1980 and ran the altar boy program.

Designed by James G. Hutchinson in a Tudor Revival style, this wooden church was built with a corner tower and half-timbering.

In the early 20th century, the traditional tracks to the North were replaced with an elevated railway which lead into Boston and connected with the city's subway, the oldest in the nation.

[19] At the facility that stood at what is now the MBTA station, carts and wagons from Roxbury and environs were weighed and charged a toll before being allowed onto the privately owned turnpike.

[20] Long after the train station had acquired the name "Forest Hills", its older identity was preserved in the name of the Toll Gate Bridge, a metal footbridge that crossed the railroad tracks to Washington Street at the point where Walk Hill Street meets Hyde Park Avenue.

In a state of disrepair, the stairs on both sides were removed during the 1990s after Ukraine Way (nearer the station) provided a crossing point for both pedestrians and traffic.

Adjacent to the footbridge entrance, the small, neglected Tollgate Catholic graveyard containing 19th and early 20th century headstones sits along Hyde Park Avenue.