A simple stele with Art Deco flair. It is running out of space for Elliott Eugene Perritts. Enlarge the picture and note the three children remembered on the base. Three funerals in four years: that is what childhood mortality used to be like even among wealthy families before we figured out how to vaccinate against childhood diseases.
-
Perritt Monument, Homewood Cemetery
-
Burnett Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A small mausoleum or vault, modern with a hint of Art Deco in the decorations. The bronze doors are particularly good, with angular decorations that remind old Pa Pitt of German Jugendstil.
-
Louis A. Behr Mausoleum, West View Cemetery
Art Deco details make a composition that is at once simple and rich. Note how the bronze doors echo the vertical lines of the stone.
-
Hirth Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A tasteful application of Art Deco details to the standard cubical mausoleum of the early twentieth century.
-
Lockhart Cross, Homewood Cemetery
A simplified Celtic cross with more than a whiff of Art Deco; it was probably put up in the 1930s, since the earliest Lockhart here died in 1936. The cemetery’s site attributes the monument to the Campell-Horigan company of Pittsburgh.