Airmount Grave Shelter Explained

Airmount Grave Shelter
Nearest City:	Thomasville, Alabama
Coordinates:	31.9689°N -87.6692°W
Built:	1853
Architecture:	Greek Revival
Added:	February 24, 2000
Mpsub:	Clarke County MPS
Refnum:	00000142

The Airmount Grave Shelter, also known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter is a brick grave shelter, or grave house, located in the Airmount Cemetery near Thomasville, Alabama, United States. It is unusual in that it protects six graves instead of the more common one grave. The brick structure was built in 1853 by John Hope. It is built in a vernacular Greek Revival style with a gabled roof. The interior features a wooden vaulted ceiling.^[1] The shelter was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 2000, as a part of the Clarke County Multiple Property Submission.

Burials

The shelter contains the graves of the following individuals:^[2]

• Archibald H. Hope (1823–1850)
• Margaret Hope (1797–1851)
• Jane A. Hope (1813–1852)
• John Allison Hope (1855–1856)
• John Hope (1791–1868)
• Sarah Jane Powell Hope (1829–1885)

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64500005}} Clarke County MPS]. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service . 2008-10-06.
2. Web site: Old Airmount Cemetery Records. Nita Munoz. 2008-10-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20050912032153/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/3150/gildercem.html. 2005-09-12.