1882 Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings Vo 1 037

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A NEW CHAPEL AT MT. AUBURN.
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Receiving Finishing Touches= = =An Administration
Building Connected with It

[image: Engraving of Chapel] THE NEW CHAPEL AT MT. AUBURN CEMETERY.

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MT AUBURN'S NEW CHAPEL
In the description of the new chapel at
Mt. Auburn, printed in the Boston Her-
ald on Dec. 9, it was erroneously stated
that the woodwork was of dark oak.
The entire woodwork, including beams
and panelled ceiling, trusses, carved fig-
ures of angels and doors, is of Florida
gulf cypress

On the right hand side of the main
gate to Mt. Auburn cemetery, and near
the high iron fence which separates the
city of the dead from the busy thorough-
fare, stands a group of red stone build-
ings on which the finishing touches are
being put. The prin-
cipal structure is the
new chapel, and the
other is an adminis-
tration building, the
two being connect-
ed by a cloister.

The administration
building is the one
[text cut off]

illustration. Enclosed cloisters connect
the chapel with the administration build-
ing, all forming two sides of a rec-
tangle.

Entering from the porte cochere, one
finds himself in a low vestibule, with a

As the pews and pulpit are not in
place, one can as yet get only a fairly
good idea of the chapel as it will appear
when finished.

The feature which first attracts atten-
tion is the roof, ceiled with dark oak-
which, by the way,
is the finish through-
out the building-
and supported by
hammer beam truss-
es, the ends of the
hammer beams be-
ing carved into the
figures of angels,
each of whom holds