The Art and Architecture of Death
A large rustic mausoleum with medievalish columns. Like most mausoleums in this cemetery, it has lost its bronze doors, but unlike the others it has not been closed off with concrete blocks. It probably provides shelter for occasional homeless guests, and if old Pa Pitt had a mausoleum he would approve of that use.
An elegantly simple cube with rusticated stone blocks to add texture and shading. Unlike most of the mausoleums in this cemetery, this one has kept its bronze doors. One wonders whether the designer intended the shallow stepped roof as a subtle recollection of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
A modest rustic temple with Doric columns. Like most mausoleums in the South Side Cemetery, it has lost its bronze doors, and the gap has been filled with concrete blocks.
Old Pa Pitt is going to call this style Romanesque because of the medieval columns, rusticated stone, and rounded lintel; but it is perhaps a bit of a mixed metaphor in style. Like most of the mausoleums in the unguarded South Side Cemetery, it has lost its bronze doors, which have been replaced with ugly concrete blocks.
A very simple mausoleum whose visual interest comes mostly from the rusticated blocks, and their contrast with the finished doorframe.
Rusticated blocks and Doric columns are a popular combination for good reason: the Doric style is simple enough to go well with rough-cut stone, which adds interest to the otherwise blank side walls.
A simple rustic mausoleum, probably a stock model, immaculately kept, like everything in the West View Cemetery.
A very restrained style of Art Deco makes this a mausoleum that stands out without being ostentatious.
The Byzantine style of this elaborate mausoleum is unusual in Pittsburgh. The complexity of the design makes the structure look larger than it is; it is not a small mausoleum, but it is not as big as it looks at first glance.
A Doric mausoleum distinguished by its rusticated stone everywhere but the columns.
