Adams Obelisk, South Side Cemetery


Dated 1887, this splendid Victorian obelisk stands guard over a circular family plot. The combination of Egyptian form and Gothic details sounds as if it ought to be an architectural train wreck, but it works well—perhaps because the form of an obelisk, with its upward thrust and its terminal point, is very much in sympathy with Gothic principles.


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