The monument to steel baron James B. Oliver and his family is one of the largest heaps of bronze in the Allegheny Cemetery. Four beautiful angels stand guard at the corners.
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Bronze Angels on the James Oliver Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
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William H. McCarthy Mausoleum, Calvary Cemetery
The Romanesque style and the sooty blackness of the stone make this mausoleum look particularly Pittsburghy. The Theodore F. Straub mausoleum in the Homewood Cemetery is identical (but without the cross), so this was probably a dealer’s standard model.
The statue on top seems to be a version of that very popular flower-strewing mourner who appears in many of our cemeteries, usually handless if she is at ground level; compare the Aul, Potts, Alexander H. King, Baxmyer, and Nickel monuments.
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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.
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McVey Monument, Calvary Cemetery
Unlike most other cemetery statues, this figure is walking forward, perhaps hastening to bring her flowers to Mr. McVey’s grave.
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Boyle Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
An angel and a cross, similar in conception to the Porter monument, but very different in execution.
