A winter view of this charming vernacular-Gothic house that serves as the office for the cemetery.

The Soffels always decorate their mausoleum in Mount Lebanon Cemetery with a wreath for Christmas.

The polished Doric columns seem almost out of place on this otherwise rustic mausoleum. The effect is like the effect of a mixed metaphor: it draws attention to itself, though you understand what it means.

If you want to be buried under a pyramid but don’t want to be ostentatious about it, this is your monument.

A beautiful abstract classical memorial that reminds old Pa Pitt of middle-twentieth-century cartoons of heaven. The most recent inscription remembers Marian Becker Cummins, who died in 2017 at the age of 101.