Pittsburgh Cemeteries

Tag: Mausoleums

  • Lillian Russell Moore Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery

    Probably the most famous beauty in American history, Lillian Russell married four times. Her fourth marriage was to Alexander Pollock Moore, publisher of the Leader in Pittsburgh, and it seems to have been a happy union. When Lillian died in 1922, her mourning husband put up this mausoleum, with the simple epitaph “The world is better for her having lived.” Mr. Moore later went on to be ambassador to Spain and then to Peru, but when he finally joined his wife, she still got top billing. His initials on the door are the only external indication that Mr. Moore is buried here, too.

  • Clark Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

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    A standard Ionic temple, though the inset porch is a somewhat unusual touch.

  • Clemson Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

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    A Doric temple of particularly fine proportions, taking advantage of its hillside position to make an even more splendid impression.

  • Williams Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery

    An Egyptian tomb extraordinary for its restraint: with none of the slightly cartoony Egyptian accoutrements that generally mark the style, it seems to return to the simplicity of the mid-nineteenth-century Egyptian Revival (compare, for example, the Walter mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery). The sloping sides, the projecting curves of the cornice and lintel, and the trapezoidal door frame are the elements that mark it as Egyptian.

  • John A. Kaercher Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery

    Built in about 1860, this is one of the first wave half-underground mausoleums in the Alegheny Cemetery. It probably had bronze doors originally, but it is easier to keep a brick wall from being stolen. The angel on top is an unusual detail for this type of mausoleum.