 On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.The Paris Cemetery gatehouse, made of granite, is also on the National Register, placed there on November 24, 1978.The cemetery was founded in 1847, with the gatehouse finished in 1862 by architect John McMurtry.