cemeteries – Συγγράμματα

Francis Martin Drexel

Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.

It’s either né and née or natus and nata. Do or do not do: there is no ‘try’.

This is the Dullest mausoleum I’ve ever seen.

The cutter was sent back to fix an imprecision in the Barr monument.

A new appendix to this post explains how and, I think, why the Gerould figure is odd.

A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.

A lesser-known but still splendid collaboration by French and Bacon. Sounds like a delicious sandwich!

“Red” Monaghan was sent out in style: of course! He was president of the cemetery association.

Grim nineteenth-century demographics mourned with grim saccharine verses.

A patent medicine king with, shall we say, an interesting history, buried in West Laurel Hill.