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There's no 1970s kitschy furniture or rhinestone-studded, flab-glam jump suits here, but there is a wide variety of architectural styles represented ranging from an Egyptian pyramid and Greek temple to neoclassical and Art Deco-styled mausoleums. |
| The architectural masterpiece of this necropolis is the Getty Tomb, designated a city landmark in 1971, and designed by one of our country's finest architects, Louis Sullivan. Many of the men who built Chicago - literally built it - lie within this 119-acre Victorian park-like cemetery: Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The following are select images from Graceland… |  |
| This eerie statue has often been referred to as "The Statue of Death." The creator of this bronze statue, sculptor Lorado Taft, entitled it "Eternal Silence." It marks the burial plot for the Graves family. |  |
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Extended Family. |
| Girl Under Glass. The haunting stare of six-year-old Inez Clarke is captured by this statue encased in a plexiglass case |  |
| Dead Letter Office. This mailbox-looking structure, near "Eternal Silence," is actually an outdoor mausoleum where cremated remains are neatly tucked away in little drawers |  |
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The Dead of Winter. |