The George J. Schmitt mausoleum is a tasteful Doric temple with a glorious stained-glass window. Regrettably, the Union Dale Cemetery is not well documented on line: in fact, it is hard to find anything about this mausoleum with a Google search except old Pa Pitt’s previous article on stained glass in the Union Dale Cemetery.
“Unto Thee O Lord Do I Lift Up My Soul”
By some standards the richest family in the world, the Mellons preferred good taste to ostentation in this simple Doric temple, built for James Ross Mellon, who died in 1934. The sculpture in front, “Motherless” by George A. Lawson (1897), actually doesn’t memorialize any particular dead Mellon; it was a piece of garden statuary that James Ross Mellon liked, but his heirs didn’t want in their garden.
Section 14
Lot 97
A simple little Doric temple with an exceptionally fine stained-glass window.
This magnificent Roman temple holds more dead people than any other mausoleum in the Homewood Cemetery, with an extensive basement accessible by a removable section of mosaic floor. (How’s that for a scene in a Gothic novel?) H. J. Heinz, the pickle and ketchup king, and generations of his descendants are buried here, including his great-grandson Senator John Heinz.
Addendum: The architects of the mausoleum were Vrydaugh & Wolfe, who also designed Warwick House for Howard Heinz.
Elaborate and imposing, this monument is particularly eclectic in its influences, but harmonizes them effectively.
See more recent and more detailed pictures of the Reinhold monument.
