Irvin Mausoleum
Noted Louisville architect Henry Whitestone designed this modified Gothic Revival mausoleum for James F. Irvin in 1867. Whitestone drew his inspiration from the Greffulhe family mausoleum designed by A.T. Brongniart ca.1816, in Pére Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. A description of the Irvin mausoleum appeared in the April 16, 1871, edition of The Louisville Daily Commercial . The newspaper described the “Scotch granite” columns, dome and exterior walls and noted the different varieties of marble used on the interior surfaces. The newspaper went on to describe the crypts as, “four depositories for coffins, with marble doors, awaiting their inmates.”
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