Sayles Hall, Brown University

A wonderful piece of academic architecture connected to an astounding family cemetery plot.

Dance with Me

The Zehnder mausoleum in Cave Hill is accompanied by bronze portraits envisioning a reunion in the après vie. Updated with a proposed design source from the Mazzone monument in Florence, Italy.

Eisenhower Memorial

I can’t get enthused about the new Eisenhower Memorial.

Savannah Cotton Exchange

Absolutely exceptional terracotta revetments decorate the Savannah Cotton Exchange.

De Soto terracotta

A stunning architectural terracotta from Preston’s Hotel De Soto (1890) brightens the lobby of the 1968 replacement building.

What in tarnation?!

An astounding ‘project’ commemoration for Theodore Steffen in Cave Hill Cemetery.

Williamson Building

Come for the Gothic revival architecture but stay for the Neoclassical portrait busts on the façade!

An Marywood art

Good light plus glass elements in public art = some intriguing shots.

Ladies and Gentlemen, contrary to expectations, Syngrammata brings you a Dull moment.

This is the Dullest mausoleum I’ve ever seen.

Edwin Zenas Gerould

A new appendix to this post explains how and, I think, why the Gerould figure is odd.

Olde School Antifascism

A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.

A powerful artistic partnership

A lesser-known but still splendid collaboration by French and Bacon. Sounds like a delicious sandwich!

St. Lucy’s Church

Bombings, antifascists, coal-mine collapses, and THE SCRANTONIAN SCULPTOR. Need ye more?

Self-made Man

A fascinating knockoff of Bobbie Carlyle’s Self-made Man sculpture with a portrait head of the deceased! *Chef’s kiss*

The Ithacan

Come for the attractive memorial but stay to find a seemingly lost work by a little-known New York artist, Charles Michael Angelo Lang.

Colbert monument

An Olde Schoole female figure illustrates 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 in Rock Creek Cemetery.

McCormick monument

An eternal guard watches over James McCormick’s grave.

Hell House of Berwick, Pennsylvania

What was once a chapel-undertaker’s-sexton’s house in Berwick, PA is now HELL HOUSE.

Pietas muscoviensis

An original (or rare) take on the traditional scene of the Pietà in Moscow, PA.

Carmel candy

Northeastern PA is very Catholic. But nothing prepared me to find an Our Lady of Fátima statue group!