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Grave monument of the Warne family in the form of a classical altar with Ionic columns at the four corners.
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Grave monument of the Warne family in the form of a classical altar with Ionic columns at the four corners.
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The tomb of Frederick A. Poth (1840-1905) faces that of another Philadelphia brewer, Louis Bergdoll, which it antedates by a decade. Poth came to the…
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The tomb of Louis Bergdoll (1825-1894) recalls one of Philadelphia's earliest large-scale German brewers. According to a small bronze plaque at its…
General view of part of West Laurel Hill Cemetery showing different neoclassical styles in funerary monuments
Andronikos of Kyrrhos (Greek astronomer and architect, active late 2nd-early 1st centuries BCE)
The Tower of the Winds, named from the sculptured reliefs of wind-god that make up a frieze marking the cardinal directions on its eight sides, is…
Stuart, James (English architect, archaeologist, and designer, 1713-1788); Revett, Nicholas (English architect and author, 1720-1804)
Plate from Stuart and Revett's The Antiquities of Athens (1762) showing a reconstruction of the Tower of the Winds.
Trumbauer, Horace (American architect, 1868-1938)
The tomb of Edward J. Berwind (1848-1936), modeled on the Tower of the Winds, Athens. Berwind attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served until 1875. …
Trumbauer, Horace (American architect, 1868-1938)
The tomb of Edward J. Berwind (1848-1936), modeled on the Tower of the Winds, Athens. Berwind attended the U.S. Naval Academy and served until 1875. …