Some winter views of this domed mausoleum that takes obvious inspiration from the Pantheon in Rome.
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Unmarked Cross, St. Mary’s Cemetery
A rusty and unmarked but elaborately filigreed cross marks somebody’s grave in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
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Byers Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Iron baron Alexander McBurney Byers (1827–1900) and his family are buried in a mausoleum very closely modeled after the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.
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James Laughlin Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
A fine statue of Hope with her portable anchor surmounts the monument to steel baron James Laughlin (of Jones & Laughlin), who died in 1882.
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Moorhead Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Some winter pictures of this extravagantly Gothic mausoleum built in 1862 for James Kennedy Moorhead. The architect was Louis Morgenroth, who also designed the original Allegheny County Civil War monument for Monument Hill, which was moved to West Park in 1931.
We have more pictures of the Moorhead mausoleum, and a little more information, in an earlier article.
