Even gilded-age figures of grief have picked up bad habits recently!
Tag Archives: Doric order
The Treasury of the Deckers
In which is explored a model for a very common American mausoleum design.
Missteps
Loss and attendant grief are terrible things, and to combat them some survivors attempt to distract themselves by entering wholeheartedly into “a project” of commemoration.
The all-seeing eye!
A monstrous surprise awaited me at Glenwood Cemetery today.
An interesting and malleable monument type.
A grand beaux-arts monument evolves to something charming.
The corner problem
Figure 1. Rouss mausoleum, c. 1902. Detail: façade. Mt. Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, VA. Photo: author. The handsome Rouss mausoleum in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, VA, is a fine, attentively designed version of a Greek Doric temple (figures 1, 2). Built after Rouss died in 1902, it varies in a dozen ways from the most …
