Weckerlin Mausoleum - St. Joseph, Missouri - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

1901
Architect/Builder: unknown

The Weckerlin mausoleum is a simple, almost monolithic rectangular structure constructed in 1901. Although the style is not immediately apparent, the structure uses Victorian eclectic and Romanesque details like many its neighbors. The roof is constructed of huge limestone slabs that form a corbel arch, each slab with a beveled angle and dressed upper surface. The first slab projects beyond the wall plane to form a very simple cornice and the front face of this slab is dressed. The next slab above it is rock-faced on the facade, as are the visible long sides (although the upper surface remains dressed). A final cap stone rests at the peak, topped at the front facade with a highly decorated floreate finial cap incised with the date "1901".

The large rock-faced limestone blocks that form the walls are set in a running bond pattern. The side and rear elevations have a battered-stone coursed water table with an upper rock faced surface bevel. The facade corners are the rock-faced ends of the massive side elevation blocks, though set in an alternating pattern of narrow and wide. Interlocking with the block ends are patterned cut and smooth dressed stone slabs that form either side of the door jamb. Carved into these smooth dressed blocks are decorative engaged columns, each with a fluted shaft and elaborate floreate-carved capitals.

At the facade, a double-leaf door is set into a deeply recessed opening. The paired doors are modern construction. Although the bronze grill gate with floral spear-point shafts in front is period. The door lintel stone is recessed from the dressed projecting ends of the first roof slabs. The stone, a modern replacement, is about one inch thick with metal fasteners to the structural lintel behind it. In the marble face is incised the name "WECKERLIN". This stone covers the original, which was incised "MUCHENBERGER" for the original owners of the mausoleum, although they were never entombed there.

The interior is not accessible at the present time.