We have seen this monument to steel baron B. F. Jones before, but the splashes of sun and shade, and the November colors, seemed picturesque enough to warrant seeing it again.
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B. F. Jones Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
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Henry Mausoleum, Allegheny Cemetery
A particularly florid example of Victorian Romanesque, probably a memorial company’s stock model. The statue on the roof is also probably a stock model, but a good one, and the erosion of more than a century has softened her into a kind of antique mystery.
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Stucki Angel, Union Dale Cemetery
An angel clutches a cross and gazes heavenward.
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Shanor Column, Union Dale Cemetery
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B. F. Jones Monument, Allegheny Cemetery
Like a stone mushroom, this is the visible outcropping of an underground mausoleum. Instead of a heroic statue of steel baron Benjamin Franklin Jones, we get a contemplative allegorical pair, one laying a wreath and palm of victory where his body is buried, the other looking upward hoping to find the real B. F. Jones in that direction. Old Pa Pitt hopes so, too.
We have more pictures of the B. F. Jones monument from 2014.
