The Decorative Stonework of the Beloved, Holt Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana

Posted by on August 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Located in one of the most interesting and unusual cemeteries we’ve seen in America–the Holt Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana, this... Read More

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Dying? In the Family? Too Bad. NO VANCY: Egyptian Revival Crypt Over Capacity for a Certain Progeny of Glenwood Cemetery, NW Washington DC

Posted by on January 6, 2011 · 2 Comments 

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A Recondite Question: Where Is The Tombs in the Unknown Boneyard of New York City Architecture? Manhattan, New York, New York

Posted by on October 27, 2010 · 1 Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); A Recondite Question: Where Is The Tombs in the Unknown Boneyard of New York City Architecture? Manhattan, New York, New York Prior to the second... Read More

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Gross Memorial Goes Beyond Clinic, Samuel D. Gross Family Plot, West Philadelphia, PA

Posted by on September 29, 2010 · 2 Comments 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); Within the environs of the Woodlands Cemetery, a West Philadelphia family estate turned cemetery, Samuel D. Gross, M.D. (1805-1884), the subject... Read More

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Unusual Swag Fencing, Presbyterian Cemetery, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Posted by on September 24, 2010 · 1 Comment 

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=131733823518196"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "facebook-jssdk")); We always enjoy a good swag, even if we have to see it in a cemetery.  This fence type is rather an unusual thing that probably was more normative,... Read More

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