The Chartiers Cemetery has a grand Civil War monument, and at the base of it the graves of dozens of Civil War soldiers are neatly regimented.
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Thorp Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A standard classical mausoleum of the 1920s or so (the earliest burial was in 1930). Father Pitt’s favorite detail is the giant acorns where we usually find urns for flowers.
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Rowe-Huston Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A good example of how subtle variations differentiate classical Doric mausoleums. Here we have the standard Doric columns, fluted, in front of a rusticated stone mausoleum. It probably dates from about 1900.
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Kennedy Stump, Mount Olivet Cemetery
This hilltop cemetery has few really interesting monuments, but old Pa Pitt has a well-known weakness for rustic stumps. This looks like an early-twentieth-century stump, but all the Kennedys buried nearby died in the later twentieth century; we suspect, therefore, that the family bought the plot and erected the stump, and then went on to live long and prosperous lives for decades.
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November in the Union Dale Cemetery
A mid-November view in the Union Dale Cemetery, with downtown Pittsburgh in the distance.
