Tag: Crosses

  • Boyle Monument, Allegheny Cemetery

    An angel and a cross, similar in conception to the Porter monument, but very different in execution.

  • Oliver Cross, Allegheny Cemetery

    The Oliver family came from Ireland, and this striking Celtic cross stands in the middle of their plot to remind them of their ancestry.

  • St. Michael’s Cemetery

    Downtown skyscrapers viewed from St. Michael’s Cemetery on the South Side Slopes. This picture is only as metaphorical as you want it to be.

    St. Michael’s Cemetery occupies a large patch of precipitous ground on the South Side Slopes. The views from here are breathtaking and sometimes a little terrifying. Here we see Oakland in the distance across the Monongahela, with a few rows of typical Slopes frame houses in the middle distance.