Art Deco details make a composition that is at once simple and rich. Note how the bronze doors echo the vertical lines of the stone.
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Louis A. Behr Mausoleum, West View Cemetery
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Fine Mausoleum, West View Cemetery
Once in a while we see an unusually tasteful modernist mausoleum. This is a good example. The form is simple, but everything is in exactly the right proportions. The retaining wall behind the mausoleum embraces it, adding to the composition; even the little square urns, each with a perfectly trimmed ball of boxwood, are in exactly the right proportions.
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Dreyfuss–Benswanger Monument, West View Cemetery
A particularly fine example of Art Deco as applied to cemetery monuments. It may date from 1931; that seems to be the earliest of several Dreyfuss burials marked by separate stones in front of the monument.
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Frank-Klee Mausoleum, West View Cemetery
The extra width gives the mausoleum room for more inmates, but it does not seem to have been worked into the design well. It looks as though the Franks and Klees ordered a standard Doric temple, quite correct in its proportions, and then as an afterthought added wings.
The stained glass is very pretty.
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Kamin Family Mausoleum, West View Cemetery
A splendid Egyptian mausoleum with a fine view of the Pyramids out the back window.
