A small stock mausoleum with indeterminate medievalish details. The cross-bearing angel on top has weathered into picturesque abstraction, looking far more otherworldly now than it did when it was new.
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Sutmeyer Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
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Kelley Monument, Union Dale Cemetery
Flower-dropping mourners are very common in our cemeteries, but this one is made of bronze and unusually fine.
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Schreiner Mausoleum, Union Dale Cemetery
A large and luxurious classical structure with a prominent cupola topped by a statue of Hope shaking her fist at heaven. At least that is how old Pa Pitt always reads the statue: it is certainly Hope (the anchor is her ID card), and Father Pitt doesn’t know what else to make of the raised-fist salute.
Ornate monograms flank the entrance arch.
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Statue on the Graham Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
Father Pitt thinks this picture of mourning and consolation (no one seems to know who the sculptor was) is one of the finest things in the cemetery, and fall colors add much to the effect.
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Henry Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
Doubtless a memorial company’s stock model, this small mausoleum is encrusted with floridly Victorian Romanesque details in a rather weighty German style. A good architect would have displayed more taste, but would a real architect have been able to provide so many details for the money?
