What shall we call this style? Father Pitt has heard it called “Byzantine,” but that does not seem right to him; it seems more Romanesque, but with an unusual domed cupola. The cupola adds impressive height, and in spite of the difficulty he had assigning the structure to a particular style, old Pa Pitt thinks it is a pleasing and harmonious design.
A towering shaft that looks a bit like a multi-stage Gothic rocket; it is, surprisingly, identical to the Baum-Roup monument in the Allegheny Cemetery. The Gormley family plot is surrounded by a stone and iron fence, with James Gormley’s name inscribed at the entrance. He died in 1890, and that is probably about the date of this shaft; the Baum-Roup monument is dated 1886 by the Allegheny Cemetery site.
A standard zinc or “white bronze” monument; note, in the picture below, the strong resemblance to the stone monument in the background. There are four panels waiting to be swapped out for custom inscriptions, but not one was ever used, leaving the name “Stewart” on the base as the only identification. Several Stewarts have headstones nearby, of whom Joseph S. Stewart (1847-1919) is perhaps of the right age for a zinc monument.
A standard zinc or “white bronze” monument, settled into a rakish angle but still standing. No other Grimms are remembered on any of the other panels; perhaps J. Emil lived past the time when new inscribed panels could readily be obtained.
Christ spreads his arms to bless thousands of residents of the southern city neighborhoods (and Mount Oliver, which is actually an independent enclave surrounded by the city of Pittsburgh). The monument is not as huge and imposing as the Louis Knoepp monument nearby, but the sculpture is much more artistic.
