List of pyramid mausoleums in North America explained

This is a list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This Egyptian Revival funerary architecture was generally an extravagance of American tycoons who wanted themselves remembered as long and as well as the ancient pharaohs. Many of these date from the 1890s to the 1920s, when older, more modest expressions of "Egyptomania" gave way to "Egyptian temples or pyramids replete with guardian sphinxes, lotus-bedecked urns and columns, and Egyptian- themed stained glass windows."^[1]

Individuals and families

• Henry Bergh Pyramid Mausoleum, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
• Bradbury Mausoleum, Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California)
• Leslie C. Brand, Brand Park, Glendale, California
• William Harry Brown Pyramid, Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1898–1899)
• Marcus Brown Pyramid, Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, design inspired by Pyramid of Cestius in Rome^[2]
• Brunswig Mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Nicolas Cage's Future Tomb, Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Confederate Memorial Pyramid, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
• Dorn Pyramid, Oddfellows Cemetery, San Luis Obispo, California
• Gardel Memorial, Mount Vernon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Lewis Grigsby Crypt, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, California^{[3] [4]}
• John Gunckel Monument, Woodlawn Cemetery (Toledo, Ohio), Toledo, Ohio

• Gwin Mausoleum, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California
• Harms Family Mausoleum, Flower Hill Cemetery (North Bergen, New Jersey)
• Mark Howard Pyramid, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut
• George W. P. Hunt, Hunt's Tomb, Phoenix, Arizona
• A.R.S. Hunter Pyramid, Murphy, North Carolina
• Pyramid tomb of Major E.C Lewis, Mt Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN
• Longstreet Mausoleum, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
• C.O.G. Miller Pyramid Mausoleum, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California
• Mongin Family, Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
• Charles Debrille Poston, Poston Butte, Florence, Arizona
• Rucker Family Tomb, Evergreen Cemetery, Everett, Washington
• Sahlberg Pyramid, Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California
• Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois
• Shatto family, Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles, California
• Dr. Ira Smith's Pyramid, Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery, St. Francisville, Louisiana
• Wm. Smith's Pyramid, Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina
• Van Ness/Parsons Mausoleum, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• Vanderbilt family, Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, NY
• Joel Parker Whitney, Spring Valley Ranch, Rocklin, California

Known but unidentified

• Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Multiple burials

• Forest Lawn South, Miami, Florida
• Egbert Ludovicus Viele and his second wife, West Point, New York

See also

• Lists of pyramids
• Mesoamerican pyramids

Notes and References

1. Book: Giguere, Joy M. . Characteristically American: Memorial Architecture, National Identity, and the Egyptian Revival . University of Tennessee Press . 2014 . 9781621900399 . 211–214.
2. Web site: Ellison . Garret Ellison . 2012-08-30 . Amazing architecture, stories behind Grand Rapids' past power brokers shared in upcoming cemetery tour . 2022-12-20 . Michigan Live . en.
3. Web site: The mausoleum of Emma and Louis Grigsby, sheaded in black slate, is a highlight of Angeles-Rosedale Cemetery -- the first in Los Angeles open to all races and creeds. This is one of several Egyptian pyramid-themed crypts in the park, which opened in 1884, 04/07/05, LC-DIG-pplot-13725-01368 (digital file from LC-HS503-493) . 2022-12-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
4. Web site: Stern . Bill . 1996-05-05 . All the Way From Memphis . 2022-12-20 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.