I was excited to attend the dedication of the new Dred and Harriett Scott memorial in Calvary Cemetery. There had been a small tombstone, but it was recently upgraded to an easier to find and much more fitting monument. As more and more Americans do not know who the Scotts are, it is more and…
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Biddle Mausoleum, December 2021
I decided to see how my favorite tree in St. Louis was doing in the Biddle Mausoleum, which I last looked at back in June of 2020. It’s one of the oldest structures in St. Louis, even if it has technically been moved from downtown and an earlier cemetery. Dormant at the time I visited,…
Calvary Cemetery, Winter 2021
Some of the most important early French families in St. Louis originally had their graves in downtown St. Louis, even in the cemetery around the Old Cathedral. When they were removed, most ended up at Calvary Cemetery, including the Chouteau family. As is common in many large family plots, the land is divided up into…
Calvary Cemetery, Summer 2020
This interesting enclosure at Calvary Cemetery is rare in St. Louis cemeteries; it is Gothic Revival in style and still has plenty of room left in it, as it seems like the burials are around the outside so far. Joseph O’Neil was born in 1817, coming to St. Louis in 1837, taking up the construction…
Crucifixes and Monuments, Calvary Cemetery
There are some nice monuments near the entrance of Calvary Cemetery, some modern, some more classical. I took a look on a sunny day. In a Roman Catholic cemetery, there are more overt crucifixes, such as the one below Christ as depicted in the Garden of Gethsemane can be seen through the columns above and…
Frank Spiekerman Mausoleum, Calvary Cemetery
The Frank Spiekerman Mausoleum in Calvary Cemetery is unique in that the full name of the owner is written across its front, and it is the most prominent Egyptian Revival edifice in the cemetery. Bellefontaine Cemetery has the very beautiful Tate Mausoleum, also in the Egyptian Revival style. Spiekerman donated a large number of painted…
Death of St. Joseph, Calvary Mausoleum, Revisited
I took another look at the sculpture group from St. Liborius, which was moved from the church when it closed to the mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery. It is framed by Modernist windows by Emil Frei, which is fitting as it was once backlit by earlier stained glass by the same family when it was in…
Calvary Cemetery, Late May 2020
In one of the more spectacular examples of natural selection being exhibited by a tree, I realized there was a sapling growing from the inside of the dome of the Biddle Mausoleum in Calvary Cemetery. I hadn’t noticed when I visited in March of 2015, but I looked back to my photos from August of…
Kerens Mausoleum, Calvary Cemetery, Revisited
I always enjoy it when readers bring my attention back to a building I’ve only cursorily looked at in the past, or that I’ve never heard about before. The Kerens Mausoleum in Calvary Cemetery is a great example; I took one photo of it back in August of 2013 but I realized, after reading a…
Calvary Cemetery, Early June 2019
I felt as if I was in Scotland again when I visited Calvary Cemetery recently. After all of the rain and warm temperatures, there seems to be a haze over the city and rolling hills, and everything is so green. I really like this cross, a combination of what appears to be gray granite with…