Edward Manning Bigelow (1850-1916), far-sighted city planner, gave us Schenley Park and Highland Park, great patches of green forest and field right in the middle of the city. They were on the edges of the city in Bigelow’s time, but he saw where the city was headed. For that we owe him immense gratitude; and if the expense of this elegant Doric mausoleum indicates that he managed to cash in some of the gratitude we owe him while he was still alive, we do not begrudge him his prosperity.
Alexander Rowland (or Rolland) Peacock was a business partner of Andrew Carnegie; he built this tasteful Doric mausoleum for himself years before he died in 1928.
A small rustic temple with smooth Doric columns and a cross. All the mausoleums in the South Side Cemetery are bricked up like this; probably they all had bronze doors, and every one has been stolen.
A standard Ionic temple, undistinguished perhaps but very elegant.
This fine polished-granite mausoleum announces his name to anyone who visits this sheltered corner of the cemetery; but D. L. Clark’s real monument is the Clark Bar, which trumpets his name to anyone who visits a convenience-store cash register. Polished granite was expensive, but a very good choice for Pittsburgh, since the grime of industry could be wiped off with little labor and no damage to the stone.
