Golden winter sun illuminates the Sunshine mausoleum in the South Side Cemetery.
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Sunshine on the Sunshine Mausoleum
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Homann Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
An elegantly simple cube with rusticated stone blocks to add texture and shading. Unlike most of the mausoleums in this cemetery, this one has kept its bronze doors. One wonders whether the designer intended the shallow stepped roof as a subtle recollection of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
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Horning Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
A large rustic mausoleum with medievalish columns. Like most mausoleums in this cemetery, it has lost its bronze doors, but unlike the others it has not been closed off with concrete blocks. It probably provides shelter for occasional homeless guests, and if old Pa Pitt had a mausoleum he would approve of that use.
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Statue on the Sunshine Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
This statue of a wreath-bearing mourner looks more contemplative as she weathers into abstraction.
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Coffin Obelisk, South Side Cemetery
Old Pa Pitt always wonders how much snickering there was at the monument dealer’s when this order came in. This is a typical Victorian obelisk with the dangerous pointy end heavily shrouded. Behind it is the even taller Adams obelisk.
