Bauer Mausoleum - Mount Mora Cemetery - St. Joseph, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

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The Bauer mausoleum is the simplest and least adorned of the mausoleums on Mausoleum Row. Its decoration is more an expression of its construction technique than it is an embodiment of any particular style.

Massive rock-faced granite blocks in a running-bond pattern set on a bevel-topped water table form the sides of the structure. The exaggerated texture of the blocks is repeated in the four slabs that create the roof. Two heavily textured side slabs taper down from a slightly thicker center slab. This slab, with its dressed granite front face, has "BAUER" in raised-block letters centered over the entry door. The fourth roof slab, heavily rock-faced, is gabled at the center and creates the ridge of the roof.

Double-leaf entry doors nearly flush with the facade are flush-dressed granite with concealed bronze hinges. Simple twisted, bronze loop pulls and a massive bronze hasp and lock provide the only touches of decoration. The single-leaf entrance gate constructed of bronze rods with ball and spear-tip finials hangs in front of the entrance doors.

The interior has suffered much with time. The ceiling was once a veined marble veneer that fitted around the underside of the corbelled granite roof slabs. The walls are veneered with a glazed white brick tile with border patterns of light blue. The three crypts, flush in the end wall, are set lengthwise and finished with a highly polished marble. The floor is a polished granite slab.