Graceland
Cemetery
Imposing
Monuments
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I call the above the Darth Vader monument.
Grim and foreboding, it is a monument to the Ryerson family,
another lumber fortune. It, too, was designed by Louis Sullivan
(1888).
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But there is no need to be gloomy, one
can be magnificent instead, as is the Palmer family (of
Palmer House fame) homestead. Potter Palmer and his wife
Bertha are in the large sarcophagi in the open temple designed
by McKim, Mead and White, noted New York architects. They
were filthy rich and the leading socialites for half a century.
They are interred, appropriately, in the styled in which
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Of course, some religious sentiment is never
out of place in a Cemetery. McKim, Mead and White also designed
this monument to William Kimball whose filthy lucre came from selling
organs and pianos--and a lot of them. |
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A Virtual Tour of Chicago's Cemeteries
© 2002 Joe Kelley
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