This mausoleum is located in Graceland Cemetery. Other than the name engraved at the top "CRANE" there is no information here.
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article (
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The cemetery's website (
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However, this website (
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"Richard Teller Crane, Jr. (1873-1931) Youngest child of Richard Teller Crane was CEO of the Crane Company from 1914 into 1931 - Resident of Chicago - 1550 North Lake Shore Drive and "Castle Hill", in Ipswich, MA - husband of Florence Higinbotham Crane and father of two, neither of whom settled in the Chicago area.
Richard Crane - the man recognized, today, by The Crane Altar and The Crane Bells of Chicago's St. Chrysostom's (Episcopal) Church and a large mausoleum on a prime site in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery. This Richard Crane married Florence Higinbotham - the daughter of Harlow Higinbotham - the partner of Marshall Field that had been volunteered by Field to be in charge of The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and who was, for many years, thereafter, the President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.
[As a result of his contacts with Daniel Burnham during The World's Columbian Exposition, Higinbotham was a great promoter of the use of Burnham, the consequences of what Higinbotham did, using Burnham in and around Joliet, IL, is beyond the scope of this paper, nor is the contrast between his taste and that of his son, who, likely at the suggestion of Charles Hutchinson, used a Prairie School architect - Robert Closson Spencer, Jr., for his own Joliet area home - Harlowarden.]
Richard, Jr., had used "Rick" Olmsted of the Olmsted Brothers firm, to site, and to design landscaping for, the structures on a vast estate in Ipswich, MA, using Charles Coolidge of the Shepley Firm of Boston for the design of the first country house there, and David Adler of Lake Forest, for its replacement. It is known as "Castle Hill". ("Country house" is quite an inadequate phrase for that remarkable residence, its outbuildings and its landscape, which are publicly accessible, as they are controlled, today, by the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations - that state's large preservation organization.)"
The Higinbotham's massive family tomb is directly across from this mausoleum.