Iron baron Alexander McBurney Byers (1827–1900) and his family are buried in a mausoleum very closely modeled after the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens. The architects were Rutan & Russell.¹

More pictures of the Byers mausoleum.

1. Philadelphia Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide, February 27, 1901, p. 135: “Rutan & Russell have prepared plans for a fine mausoleum to be erected in Allegheny Cemetery for the family of the late A. M. Byers. The contract has been let to C. E. Tayntor & Co., of New York. The cost will be about $35,000.” ↩︎

If you want to be remembered as a man of taste, you should be entombed in the Parthenon, or something very like it. The architects were Rutan & Russell.¹

This is very similar, but not identical, to the Eaton mausoleum in the Homewood Cemetery. Both are very correct Doric temples, bearing an even stronger resemblance to the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens than to the Parthenon. Alexander McBurney Byers was a titan of the iron industry, which you would never guess from this pristine white temple.

Another picture of the Byers mausoleum.

1. Philadelphia Real Estate Record & Builders’ Guide, February 27, 1901, p. 135: “Rutan & Russell have prepared plans for a fine mausoleum to be erected in Allegheny Cemetery for the family of the late A. M. Byers. The contract has been let to C. E. Tayntor & Co., of New York. The cost will be about $35,000.” ↩︎