Built in 1930, this mausoleum combines surprisingly disparate elements—Romanesque, Egyptian, Renaissance, and even Art Deco—and makes a harmonious whole out of them.
It would be hard to improve on this lush growth of lichens for picturesque effect.
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McKinney Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
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Dupey Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A small and simple rustic Romanesque mausoleum that still bears its decades of accumulated industrial blackness.
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Fleming Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A proper peripteral (meaning “with columns all the way around”) Doric temple that makes a grand impression at any time of year, but especially with fall colors as a backdrop. Its obvious model is the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.
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Henry Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A particularly florid example of Victorian Romanesque, probably a memorial company’s stock model. The statue on the roof is also probably a stock model, but a good one, and the erosion of more than a century has softened her into a kind of antique mystery.
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Wilkins Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Judge William Wilkins was the owner of the estate called Homewood, whose grounds are now the Homewood Cemetery. His mausoleum is the oldest in the cemetery, which was built around it, and it is a model of the original Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Older family gravestones are gathered around the monument, including the grave of Judge Wilkins’ father, Captain John Wilkins, who fought in the Revolution.
More pictures of the Wilkins mausoleum, including transcriptions of the four inscriptions.
