Architecturally, this is identical to the Henry mausoleum, also in the Allegheny Cemetery. Only the statue on top is different.
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C. H. Kerr Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
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Butler Street Entrance, Allegheny Cemetery
The original entrance gate was designed by John Chislett, who laid out the cemetery; the Administration Building with its clock tower was added in 1870 and expanded in the 1920s. Through it all, the keepers of the cemetery made sure that each new addition formed part of a harmonious whole—which is a difficult thing to do over the course of eight decades of changing fashions.
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Phipps-Loomis Angel, Allegheny Cemetery
Ibrealla Loomis Phipps died in 1888 at the age of 26, and that is probably about the date of this very 1880s recording angel.
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Wainwright Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
The pyramid (in classical Roman rather than Egyptian shape) is unusual enough; the fact that it appears to be reading a pair of giant books makes it look a bit like one of the Daleks from Doctor Who. The books are almost completely illegible; the cemetery’s site guesses that these monuments mark the graves of the Wainwright Brothers, successful brewers in the middle 1800s.
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Darlington Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Another variation on the miniature Doric temple; it is not extraordinary, but try to get such a perfectly correct classical mausoleum today. Harry Darlington, Sr., the earliest burial here, died in 1914; this mausoleum was probably built no later than that, and quite likely years earlier, as it was common for rich plot owners to prepare their mausoleums while they were still in the prime of middle age.
