Carrie Eliza Getty Mausoleum - Chicago, IL - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

From the Arts Inventory site:
Small square building with smooth lower walls of perfectly proportioned cubes. At the midpoint is a profusion of incised eight-pointed stars that rise up to a slab roof. On the front, in the middle of the wall, are two gates made of pierced bronze and inside is a door decorated in low relief with an eight-pointed star motif.

From Wikipedia
"The Getty Tomb has been said to be the most significant piece of architecture in Graceland cemetery and the beginning of Sullivan's involvement in the architectural style known as the Chicago School.

The tomb, which stands on its own triangular plot of land, is composed of limestone masonry construction. Roughly a cube in shape, the bottom half of the tomb is composed of large, smooth limestone blocks. The upper half is composed of a rectangular pattern of octagons, each containing an eight-pointed starburst design. The cornice is banded with smooth limestone above intricate spiraling patterns below, and the top-edge of the roofline is straight and horizontal on the front and back and scalloped in a concave fashion on the sides.

When approaching the tomb, the obvious focus is the ornate doorway. An intricately ornamented bronze gate and door, patinated green over time, are spanned by a broad semi-circular archway. The voussoirs, emanating radially in long thin wedges, share alternating areas of plain and intricately carved concentric bands. The twin gates as well as the door behind share a combination of geometric and floral details that incorporate the starburst seen in the upper patterned walls. The three other sides of the tomb house semi-circular, bronze-clad windows that mimick the arch and door details of the front. A plaster cast of the door was exhibited at the 1900 Paris Exhibition where it won Sullivan an award.

Henry joined his wife in the tomb when he died in 1920. Their only child Alice was added in 1946. On March 10, 1971, the tomb was designated as a Chicago Landmark by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks."

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btw Louis Henri Sullivan, one of Chicago's best known architects, died penniless in 1924 and is buried nearby in Graceland under an elegant marker erected by his admirers.

A Chicago Landmark, see:
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and on the National Register of Historic Places.

TITLE: Carrie Eliza Getty Mausoleum ARTIST(S): Sullivan, Louis Henry, 1856-1924, sculptor. DATE: none provided by Smithsonian site; 1890 from Chicago Landmark site MEDIUM: Mausoleum: stone; Doors: bronze. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 76007979 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Graceland Cemetery N. Clark St. and W. Irving Park Rd., Chicago, IL USA 60613 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: none

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