An impressive Ionic temple, larger than usual for a mausoleum of this type—note the double bronze doors.
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Andrew Jackman Mausoleum, St. Mary’s Cemetery
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Henry Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
This little Romanesque mausoleum reminds Father Pitt of a Yorkshire terrier: it makes up for its small size with an outsized attitude, including castle-like turrets at the corners. The statue on the top has suffered much from the industrial atmosphere, but it is still picturesque. David F. Henry was in the auction business, which apparently paid well.
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Fleming Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A splendid Doric temple built in 1901 for a patent-medicine king. We tend to forget that, though steel made Pittsburgh’s reputation, throughout the nineteenth century the city was also a very important center of the patent-medicine business. Perhaps we’d rather forget it, but old Pa Pitt is here to remind us of the fact every once in a while.
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Hartje Mausoleum Homewood Cemetery
This little Egyptian mausoleum is noticeably different from others of its style. The lotus columns and winged sun disk are there, but the rusticated stone is not usual on Egyptian monuments, and the sides of the mausoleum do not slope in the approved Egyptian manner. In fact this seems to be a standard rustic mausoleum with an Egyptian porch and door. But the door is something to see. In addition to its lotus-pattern grille, it has what appears to be a large knocker, which one might think superfluous in a house of the dead, but then one never knows.
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Stimmel Mausoleum, Homewood Cemetery
Yet another silent-movie-set Egyptian temple, but this one unexpectedly delights us with a stained-glass window that looks like a poster for the movie.
