A good example of how subtle variations differentiate classical Doric mausoleums. Here we have the standard Doric columns, fluted, in front of a rusticated stone mausoleum. It probably dates from about 1900.
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Rowe-Huston Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
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Reilly Mausoleum, Calvary Cemetery
It is rare to find a classical mausoleum with explicitly Christian symbols—except in Catholic cemeteries, where it is very much the norm. This fine little Doric temple bears a cross on the top, broadcasting the unambiguous message, “Tasteful but not pagan.”
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Weinman Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA Probably built in the 1920s (its earliest residents, Anna Barbara and Jacob Weinman, moved in in 1927), this is a simple rectangular mausoleum with Doric details. The stained glass inside is attractive.
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Morris Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
A vigorous sculpture with a swirling upward motion appropriately illustrates the quotation from 1 Thessalonians 4:14. The quotation itself, however, is ungrammatically mangled in the inscription. The full verse is this: “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” The stonecutter, doubtless believing he had detected the King James translators in a solecism, inscribed, “They which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him.” But the translators were right and the stonecutter was wrong; he has made nonsense of the verse.
George W. Morris, the first occupant of this mausoleum, died in 1899; it may have been put up for him some years before that.
Father Pitt assumes that the base of the sculpture is supposed to represent a cloudy whirlwind, but it could also be a pile of dirty laundry.
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Darlington Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Another variation on the miniature Doric temple; it is not extraordinary, but try to get such a perfectly correct classical mausoleum today. Harry Darlington, Sr., the earliest burial here, died in 1914; this mausoleum was probably built no later than that, and quite likely years earlier, as it was common for rich plot owners to prepare their mausoleums while they were still in the prime of middle age.
