
A perfect Gothic chapel built in 1881, this is one of the larger mausoleums in the cemetery. It sits on a hilltop with spectacular views down into the Ohio valley.








The very rich had their mausoleums designed for them by famous architects. The merely adequately rich ordered their mausoleums from a catalogue. We can say with some confidence that this attractive but undistinguished Romanesque mausoleum is a stock model because it is identical, including the statue, to the Braun mausoleum in the South Side Cemetery.
The George J. Schmitt mausoleum is a tasteful Doric temple with a glorious stained-glass window. Regrettably, the Union Dale Cemetery is not well documented on line: in fact, it is hard to find anything about this mausoleum with a Google search except old Pa Pitt’s previous article on stained glass in the Union Dale Cemetery.
“Unto Thee O Lord Do I Lift Up My Soul”
By some standards the richest family in the world, the Mellons preferred good taste to ostentation in this simple Doric temple, built for James Ross Mellon, who died in 1934. The sculpture in front, “Motherless” by George A. Lawson (1897), actually doesn’t memorialize any particular dead Mellon; it was a piece of garden statuary that James Ross Mellon liked, but his heirs didn’t want in their garden.
Section 14
Lot 97
A simple little Doric temple with an exceptionally fine stained-glass window.