Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.
Tag Archives: Philadelphia PA
—Munyon
A patent medicine king with, shall we say, an interesting history, buried in West Laurel Hill.
O tempora! O mores!
Even gilded-age figures of grief have picked up bad habits recently!
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There are some wonderful monuments that feature a symbolic empty chair.
The Sullivan pillar
Instead of a freestanding column or obelisk the Sullivans chose a Gothicized pillar with eternal flame grave markers.
The Flanigan mausoleum
A fine mausoleum reviving the Gothic English country church in Philadelphia with some comparative examples.
Dreamscape
Fun editing a surrealistic image of a tree in Ivy Hill Cermetery.
Old Mortality
Sir Walter Scott in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania? Well, why not?
Still on guard
Outstanding and informative private monuments erected for two Union Civil War veterans.
Funerary landscaping
A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.
