All right angles and sharp edges (even the urns are square), this is what you do in an age when modern architecture is in fashion, but you don’t quite want to give up on classical style. It received its first burial in 1940, so it was probably built in the 1930s.
This looks like a construction from the middle twentieth century, say 1930 or later; the imperfect on-line records for the cemetery have no dates for most of the burials in it.
The polished granite is expensive, but resists the industrial grime that darkened other monuments in Pittsburgh’s hell-with-the-lid-off age.
The Hays family mausoleum received its first residents in 1904. The stained glass is striking, and the combination of arch and “modern Ionic” columns is elegant.
A severely plain structure, almost like a quick sketch of a classical mausoleum; it is most notable for the stained-glass riot of symbols inside, including a floating eye that is disturbingly naturalistic. The mausoleum seems to have been built in 1921, when it received the remains of several Junkers and Duvalls.
Father Pitt guesses from the style that this mausoleum is from the middle twentieth century. The cemetery records (volunteer-maintained) give us only a row of question marks for the death dates of Mr. Golden and his family. The polished granite is impressive, and there is a good stained-glass window inside.
