Tag: Mausoleums

  • Sunshine Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery

    This mausoleum and its stone mourner are doubtless both standard catalogue items. But they are picturesque, and much more so because of the deep blackness of the stone. Most stone buildings in Pittsburgh used to look like this, but few of them have escaped cleaning.

    The other thing that makes the mausoleum stand out, of course, is the delightful name “Sunshine” over the door.

  • John Schmotzer Mausoleum, St. Michael’s Cemetery

    This is the only mausoleum in the cemetery [correction: it is one of two; note the kind comment below], a typical small rusticated-stone mausoleum. Originally it would have had bronze doors, but those are usually stolen from an unguarded cemetery and sold to scrap dealers who obviously have no idea where two men with a pickup truck might have got a large door-shaped chunk of bronze.

  • R. R. Frisbee Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery

    An antebellum burial vault, built in 1858 in a restrained classical style. It looks wonderfully ancient and mysterious when you happen on it back in this woodsy section of the cemetery.

  • H. P. Sloterbeck Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery

    A Doric mausoleum with rusticated stone: a very common sort of design, but very dignified, and much more picturesque when we add autumn leaves. The stained glass inside is a standard design from the catalogue.

  • Oliver Mausoleum, Highwood Cemetery

    Here is the very last gasp of the Egyptian style. The mausoleum is thoroughly modern and simple, but still has the shape and winged sun disk to show that it is meant to be Egyptian.