A simplified Doric mausoleum without entablature or any of the usual fiddly bits. It dates from 1885, but one could be forgiven for supposing it a twentieth-century modernist’s interpretation of classical style.
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Robert Carson Mausoleum, Union Dale Cemetery
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Hemphill Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A simple but elegant Ionic mausoleum, seen here with the much more extravagant Brown pyramid in the background.
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Fownes Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A rich-looking Ionic façade with a Victorian profusion of details, including rusticated stone blocks. It seems to have been a stock model; an exact duplicate was built for the Wilson family in the Union Dale Cemetery.
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Sheraden Monument, Chartiers Cemetery
William Sheraden was the founder of the Sheraden borough that later became the Sheraden neighborhood of Pittsburgh. We have featured this monument before, but not with such fine fall colors in the background.
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Baum Monument, Homewood Cemetery
This unusual round Doric temple, unlike a closed mausoleum, invites cemetery visitors to step up and under the roof. There the names of the Baum family members interred here are inscribed in an open stone book on a lectern.
