Forever Dixie by Douglas Keister

Author:Douglas Keister
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781423608240
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2008-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Uniquely Funerary Hybrid Architecture

Not all architecture fits into the customary architectural styles. Architects often blended totally unrelated styles and sometimes created styles of their own. At the end of the nineteenth century, modern architecture was making its first beginning but not before an architectural free-for-all known as Eclecticism burst upon the scene. Nowhere in this architectural grab bag was this more apparent than in the cemetery. Indeed, many mausoleums and funerary structures are a triumph of form over function. The closest types of architecture that these whimsical structures can be compared to are the “follies” of Victorian architecture. A “folly” is defined by Penguin’s Dictionary of Architecture as “a costly, but useless structure built to satisfy the whim of some eccentric and thought to show his folly.”

Pizzati Mausoleum, Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana

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