A particularly fine mourner, black with sooty Pittsburgh history, strewing flowers over the grave.
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Black Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Most notable for its exceptionally fine stained glass, this mausoleum, which at first looks like a standard-issue miniature classical temple, is also one of the few in Pittsburgh with columns of the Composite order.
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George Baum Family Monument, Homewood Cemetery
A round Doric temple enshrines a book on which are written the names of the deceased.
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Ingles Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
James Ingles, born in Scotland, died here in 1863. This is a fine example of Civil-War-era Gothic style.
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McIntosh Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
This is a standard urn-on-the-top monument, and Father Pitt mentions it mostly because it includes a name that, as far as he can tell, is entirely unique: “Elspacious,” Mr. McIntosh’s son, who died at the age of 27 or 28 in some terrible accident (“burned to death at Oil City,” says the History of Allegheny County, which has a short biography of Laughlan McIntosh). Google finds no other men named Elspacious on the entire World-Wide Web.
