A simple and timeless design, classical but not classicist because it does not subscribe to any ism.
Bronze doors with palm fronds, symbolic of victory over death.
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Harry P. Kuhn Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
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McKinney Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Built in 1930, this mausoleum combines surprisingly disparate elements—Romanesque, Egyptian, Renaissance, and even Art Deco—and makes a harmonious whole out of them.
It would be hard to improve on this lush growth of lichens for picturesque effect.
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Brown Pyramid, Homewood Cemetery
Alden & Harlow, the highest-class high-class architects in Pittsburgh, designed this mausoleum, certainly the most photographed monument in the Homewood Cemetery, for William Harry Brown. It is festooned with Egyptian-style symbols, but the pyramid itself is in the proportions of the Pyramid of Cestius in Rome.
More pictures of the Brown pyramid, and more, and more.
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Heinz Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Generations of H. J. Heinzes have been buried here, and the large underground chamber still has room for more. The architects were Vrydaugh & Wolfe, who also designed Warwick House, Howard Heinz’ mansion in Squirrel Hill.
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Donald Baird Tombstone, Homewood Cemetery
This is an ordinary-looking grave marker, except that it is probably the only one in Pittsburgh with an engraving of an extinct fish, and almost certainly the only one with an extinct fish named after the deceased. Donald Baird was a paleontologist who grew up in Pittsburgh, spent his career as a professor at Princeton, and retired to Pittsburgh to putter in the Carnegie Museum’s huge collection of fossils in basement drawers. The fish was named for him by one of his admiring colleagues.
