Three obelisks bearing three different names, but completely identical and all in a row. Father Pitt knows of no other trio of identical obelisks in Pittsburgh.
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Obelisk Trio, Calvary Cemetery
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Baum-Roup Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
One has the impression that there is a sort of obelisk underneath here, but it has become encrusted with ornamentation, like a saint’s relic from the Middle Ages. It certainly serves its purpose of leaving a distinctive mark on the cemetery skyline to guide Baums and Roups to their ancestors’ graves. The Baums and Roups intersected in life by marriage, and the streets named after them intersect in Friendship.
There is an absolutely identical shaft in the Chartiers Cemetery for the Gormley family. Was this some monument-dealer’s most extravagant standard-order item?
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Obelisks, West View Cemetery
We frequently find whole sections of cemeteries prickly with obelisks, as here in the West View Cemetery, where they add considerably to the picturesqueness of the landscape.
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Brahm-Cerwic-Reineman Obelisk, Union Dale Cemetery
A standard Egyptian obelisk with a tasteful classical base.
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Philotus Dean Obelisk, Union Dale Cemetery
Philotus Dean was a beloved high-school principal, unlikely as that sounds, who died at the age of forty-nine. The extensive inscription on his monument tells the rest of the tale.
