Built in 1930, this mausoleum combines surprisingly disparate elements—Romanesque, Egyptian, Renaissance, and even Art Deco—and makes a harmonious whole out of them.
It would be hard to improve on this lush growth of lichens for picturesque effect.
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McKinney Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
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Armstrong Monument, South Side Cemetery
A moderately Art Deco interpretation of Gothic. In his brief visit, Father Pitt was not able to find any dated Armstrong headstones nearby, but the style would probably date this monument to the 1920s or 1930s.
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Bald Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A strikingly dignified Art Deco mausoleum that adapts the setbacks of Deco skyscrapers to the classical formality of a cemetery environment.
We have more pictures of the Bald mausoleum in an earlier article.
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Blumenthal-Mendelson Monument, Tree of Life Cemetery
Art Deco can be a very dignified style when applied with taste. The classical symmetry of this monument is combined with a streamlining that would look good on the front of a locomotive.
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Mervis Family Plot, Tree of Life Cemetery
The Mervises have a fine Art Deco monument with a shining lamp at the top (and a very artistic wasp nest in one corner). It was probably put up in 1941, when Joseph A. Mervis died, or possibly before, when the plot was purchased.
