Tag: Art Deco

  • Perritt Monument, Homewood Cemetery

    Perritt monument

    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.

  • Burnett Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

    Burnett Mausoleum

    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

    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

    Hirth mausoleum

    A tasteful application of Art Deco details to the standard cubical mausoleum of the early twentieth century.

    Hirth mausoleum
  • Lockhart Cross, Homewood Cemetery

    Lockhart cross

    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.

    Lockhart cross
    Reliefs