Built St. Louis
The Beauty of Modernism

Calvary Cemetary Mausoleum - north City
Architect: ?
Date: ?

My companions and I found some aspects of the building are a little off-putting (such as the fact that it's a mausoleum for one, and they've had to install some very busy bug zappers for another; also, the homey chairs and lamps they've added to make it seem more domestic just have the opposite effect.). But the stained glass is beautiful.

The mausoleum is very large, with numerable cross-passages intersecting its one main corridor. Polished stone lines most of the walls and floors, providing cool reflections of the elegant, insistently orthogonal Modernist stained glass.

The exterior is not particularly Modern, beyond being somewhat restrained in ornament; it more resembles an Art Deco interpretation of a fortress, clad in heavy stone with relatively spare ornament. A side entry shows a more Modernist approach and may have been built later.