An angel in high relief stands before a rustic boulder and drops lily flowers on the Hipples’ graves. The earliest burial in this plot seems to be Marion F. Hipple, who died in 1899, and that is a good guess at the date of this angel.
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Hipple Angel, Homewood Cemetery
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Peacock Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Alexander Rowland (or Rolland) Peacock was a business partner of Andrew Carnegie; he built this tasteful Doric mausoleum for himself years before he died in 1928.
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Niemann Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA A standard Ionic temple, undistinguished perhaps but very elegant.
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David L. Clark Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
This fine polished-granite mausoleum announces his name to anyone who visits this sheltered corner of the cemetery; but D. L. Clark’s real monument is the Clark Bar, which trumpets his name to anyone who visits a convenience-store cash register. Polished granite was expensive, but a very good choice for Pittsburgh, since the grime of industry could be wiped off with little labor and no damage to the stone.
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Clarence Burleigh Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
If this mausoleum looks a bit like a miniature courthouse, then Mr. Burleigh should feel right at home: he earned his greatest fame, or infamy, as the Allegheny County district attorney who prosecuted the Homestead strikers in 1892. He was later Pittsburgh city solicitor for many years. You may ask how a man who devoted his life to public service gained the kind of wealth evident in this splendid Ionic temple; but if you do ask it, it is because you are not very familiar with Pittsburgh.
