A Doric mausoleum with rusticated stone: a very common sort of design, but very dignified, and much more picturesque when we add autumn leaves. The stained glass inside is a standard design from the catalogue.
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H. P. Sloterbeck Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
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Robb Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
With bonus deer. This exceptionally grand monument is in the most romantic interpretation of the Gothic style. Although C. W. Robb lived until 1892, from the style Father Pitt is almost certain that this was put up when his wife Caroline Amelia died in 1869. C. W. married again; his second wife was nearly thirty years younger than he was, and lived until 1936. She shares a small headstone nearby with their daughter, who also died in 1936.
For some reason, Father Pitt suspects that C. W. Robb may have been an organist.
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Morrison Family Plot, Allegheny Cemetery
Almost all the fences and barriers that used to demarcate family plots in the nineteenth century were removed in Allegheny Cemetery, but this one has somehow survived the loud protests of groundskeepers. You will note, however, that the groundskeepers seem to be deliberately avoiding the interior of the plot.
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Wallingford-Davison Family Plot, Allegheny Cemetery
A family plot with a romantic Gothic marble monument, now illegible but still grand in its way. It was once surrounded by an iron fence, but like almost all such fences it has been removed to make life easier for groundskeepers.
We can see where the iron fence once fitted into the stone gateposts.
Note the rusty remnants of an iron gate.
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Bay Psalm Book Window, Allegheny Cemetery Mausoleum
This window commemorates the famous Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in British America. Everyone learned to sing these rhymed versions of the Psalms, because it was not legal under the rule of the Puritans to sing anything else.
