Pittsburgh Cemeteries

Tag: Relief

  • Aaron Monument, West View Cemetery

    A monument in a sort of Jewish Romanesque style, with a Star of David worked into the relief. Compare it to the very similar, but explicitly Christian, Jenkins monument in the Homewood Cemetery.

  • Ford Monument, Homewood Cemetery

    An upward-pointing angel bears a palm frond, symbol of victory. The angel confidently points the direction in which the victorious Fords are headed.

  • 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.

  • Jenkins Monument, Homewood Cemetery

    You may not have the money or space for a mausoleum, but you can still demonstrate exquisite taste, as in this monument, whose details are Romanesque but whose form and inscription are severely classical.

  • Brick Monument in the Beechview German Lutheran Cemetery

    This monument in the Victorian Romantic style is such a jumble of metaphors that old Pa Pitt is reluctant to try to untangle it. A number of elements—calla, ferns, cushion, scroll, drapery, rustic seat—are rendered individually with great realism, but thrown together in an extraordinarily unlikely way. The monument can be found (but probably won’t be found by most people) in a nearly forgotten German Lutheran cemetery on a hillside in Beechview.