A larger-than-average Doric mausoleum whose hillside location allows for an impressive stairway. Its best feature is the beautiful Tiffany-like stained glass in the rear.
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Keech Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
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Seaman Monument, Homewood Cemetery
A statue, perhaps of a wingless recording angel (writing “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord”), tops a tastefully simple classical monument.
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McCluen Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A rusticated temple in the Modern Ionic style, notable for its fine stained glass. The painting in the face and lilies has faded, but we can still imagine how it must have looked when it was fresh.
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Beehner Monument, Homewood Cemetery
A Romanesque monument of pleasing and harmonious proportions, though one should probably try not to think too hard about what sort of structure it is attempting to represent. It probably dates from about 1900.
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Walker Monument, Homewood Cemetery
A large bronze relief depicts the empty tomb of Jesus on Easter morning, with two astonished women confronted by an angel who points outward and upward.