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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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.
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George Hogg Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
“Angel of the Resurrection” was the sculptor’s name for this bronze angel. Henry Kirke Brown was the sculptor, and he was one of the first Americans to cast his own full-size bronzes. When his statue of De Witt Clinton was unveiled in 1855, it was reported to be the first full-length statue cast in bronze by an American; this angel, however, is older, though a little less than life size (if angels have a life size). By some reckonings, then, this is the first large bronze statue cast in America. It was cast in about 1850, since George Hogg died in 1849.
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Bindley Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Some winter views of this domed mausoleum that takes obvious inspiration from the Pantheon in Rome.
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Byers Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Iron baron Alexander McBurney Byers (1827–1900) and his family are buried in a mausoleum very closely modeled after the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.
