A small but rich-looking mausoleum in a kind of classicized Gothic style, topped by Hope clutching her anchor. The bronze doors are particularly worth looking at. The mausoleum and statue are nearly identical to the J. P. Ober mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery, with only very slight alterations in the details.
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Dr. G. T. Jacoby Mausoleum, Prospect Cemetery
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Rook Column, Allegheny Cemetery
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Johnston Monument, Homewood Cemetery
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Siebert Monument, Birmingham Cemetery
By far the grandest monument in the cemetery, this one is surmounted by a figure pointing upward, like the traditional representations of Hope, except that there is no anchor. Instead, she holds a stem of lilies. Whatever she represents, she is a fine piece of sculpture, all the more surprising for being the only notable piece of sculpture in the whole cemetery.
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Blendinger Monument, Spring Hill Cemetery
Hope holds her ever-present anchor and points upward. The statue is only fairly good, but the Gothic base is really splendid, wealthy in well-harmonized detail.
The Blendingers had five children who died before their parents, the oldest one at ten or eleven.