Drexel has a handsome neoclassical pile in The Woodlands.
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—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.
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill
The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.
Trompe l’oeil in Laurel Hill
A wondrous trompe l’oeil effect created by the landscape architect of the Conarroe plot in Laurel Hill.