A proper peripteral (meaning “with columns all the way around”) Doric temple that makes a grand impression at any time of year, but especially with fall colors as a backdrop. Its obvious model is the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.
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Fleming Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
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Armor Family Plot, Hopewell-Hebron Cemetery
This elegant urn-topped monument remembers Annie M. Armor, who died in 1880, and her husband A. M.
ANNIE M.
WIFE OF
A. M. ARMOR
DIED
MARCH 17, 1880
IN THE 65[?] YEAR
OF HER AGE.
MOTHER
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NANCY
McCANDLESS
WIFE OF
JAMES ARMOR
BORN
APR. 17, 1802
DIED
DEC. 10, 1880
JAMES ARMOR
BORN
Apr. 18, 1798[?]
DIED
Feb. 8[?], 1871 -
Connell Family Plot, Hopewell-Hebron Cemetery
The monument above is illegible, but it sits in a plot with the Connells, and it may be the founding matriarch or patriarch. Other Connells have been buried under a variety of stones at different times.
John and Mary Connell had an infant son who did not survive to be named and a daughter, Alice B., who lived to be about one year old.
“Fernie” might be yet another child of John and Mary.
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Hopewell-Hebron Cemetery, Findlay Township
A cemetery at the far western edge of Allegheny County. It was incorporated in 1906, but the eastern half of it appears to have been the churchyard of Hebron Presbyterian Church, with burials going back to the middle 1800s.
There is probably a story in that court order.
It takes quite a while for a cedar to grow to these dimensions.
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Henry Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A particularly florid example of Victorian Romanesque, probably a memorial company’s stock model. The statue on the roof is also probably a stock model, but a good one, and the erosion of more than a century has softened her into a kind of antique mystery.
