Pittsburgh Cemeteries

Category: Homewood Cemetery

  • John Worthington Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

    Mr. Worthington, an oil baron, chose to be buried in an unusual Gothic tower, more castle-like than chapel-like. It is particularly notable for its inscription, which is nearly unique in using quasi-medieval letters on quasi-medieval architecture. (Most Gothic monuments use plain “gothic” characters like the ones used in advertising signs of the era.)

    Addendum: The architect was Louis Stevens, who also designed Mr. Worthington’s mansion on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill (now part of Temple Sinai).

    More pictures of the John Worthington mausoleum.

  • Ford Monument, Homewood Cemetery

    An upward-pointing angel bears a palm frond, symbol of victory. The angel confidently points the direction in which the victorious Fords are headed.

  • McKay Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

    A somewhat unusual interpretation of the Egyptian temple, though it does not abandon the three requisites: sloping sides, lotus columns, winged scarab. The front is a very close scale model of the front of Trajan’s Kiosk at Philae (now moved to Agilkia Island) in Egypt.

    Here are two more pictures, these from July of 2022.

    The original pictures in this article disappeared with the server that hosted them. These pictures are from October of 2022.

  • Mellon Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

    By some standards the richest family in the world, the Mellons preferred good taste to ostentation in this simple Doric temple, built for James Ross Mellon, who died in 1934. The sculpture in front, “Motherless” by George A. Lawson (1897), actually doesn’t memorialize any particular dead Mellon; it was a piece of garden statuary that James Ross Mellon liked, but his heirs didn’t want in their garden.

    Section 14
    Lot 97

  • Masten Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

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    A simple little Doric temple with an exceptionally fine stained-glass window.