August Ernest Succop was interred here in 1931, but if Father Pitt had to guess, he would say that Mr. Succop had this mausoleum built for himself yeas before that. It has the correctly Doric style of the first part of the twentieth century. A good stained-glass window of the risen Christ is inside.
This elegant Ionic mausoleum received its first residents in 1880. As a classical mausoleums go, it is unusually splendid, much more varied in texture than early-twentieth-century designs. Rusticated stone, smooth columns, polished-granite pilasters flanking the doorway, and even the unusually artistic letters that spell out the name “FOWNES”—all add to the impression of richness and complexity. But nothing seems out of place. Father Pitt considers this a good example of what was best in “Victorian” design.
Designed by Albert H. Spahr of MacClure & Spahr, one of Pittsburgh’s busier architectural firms, this Gothic chapel is timeless. It was built in 1923, but it would not look out of place in a medieval English village.
A restrained classical mausoleum of the flat-roofed Doric variety that became popular in the twentieth century. Louis C. Sands was buried here in 1922, so that is the latest possible date for this mausoleum.
