A sort of Potemkin classical façade is flanked by benches that embrace the family headstones below. To judge by the earliest burial in the plot, this monument was probably put up about 1917.
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Pargny Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
All right angles and sharp edges (even the urns are square), this is what you do in an age when modern architecture is in fashion, but you don’t quite want to give up on classical style. It received its first burial in 1940, so it was probably built in the 1930s.
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Selden Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
This looks like a construction from the middle twentieth century, say 1930 or later; the imperfect on-line records for the cemetery have no dates for most of the burials in it.
The polished granite is expensive, but resists the industrial grime that darkened other monuments in Pittsburgh’s hell-with-the-lid-off age.
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Evans Monument, Homewood Cemetery
This classical stele stands over the Evans family plot, with the typical array of identical individual headstones in front of it. It was probably put up in about 1920, the date of the earliest burial in the plot.
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Hays Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
The Hays family mausoleum received its first residents in 1904. The stained glass is striking, and the combination of arch and “modern Ionic” columns is elegant.
