The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-05-24
MAGNIFICENT MEMORIAL
Cut in Barre Granite and Erected in a
Bennington Cemetery.

The Bennington Banner tells of the
erection of handsome memorial of
Barre granite in Park Lawn cemetery,
as follows
Grading about the magnificent pri-
vate tomb which Edward II. Everett has
erected in Bennington's Park Lawn GENE
terry in memory of his wife, Amy King
Everett, is nearly finished The com
pleted memorial is the result of two
years of strenuous endeavor and UNI
ceasing effort necessitated in the quarry
ing, cutting, transportation and setting
of the mammoth sections of granite en-
terng into its construction.
"The roof stones are the largest ever
taken from the famous granite guarries
| in Barre, Vt, and the dimensions reach
the limit of transportation by railroad.
| The measurements are 80 feet and four
inches for length, 20 feet and 3 inches
for width and approximately two feet for
thickness. When taken from the quarry
| they weighed 60 tons each and AZ tons
after being finished and ready to be
placed in position.
"The mausoleum is SO feet and s
inches wide, As feet and 8 inches long
and 81 feet high. The architecture is of
the Grecian Doric order and the memorial
is reproduction in modified form and
| size of the Parthenon at Athens, with
all the reiinements in line and proper
tions of that famous temple. Even the
details of the slight eanting or leaning
of the columns toward the building and
the entasle or bulge in the columns were
carefully reproduced in order that the
same results might be obtained that
have made the Parthenon a masterpiece
of architecture for all time.
"Twenty-six futed columns form a
peristyle or colonnade about the struc-
ture and the side walls are each a single
stone, 20 feet and 6 inches long and
9 feet and 6 inches high. The floor is
one huge block and the base courses
were cut in four sections, each weighing
nearly 40 tons.
"The exterior is hammered light gran
tie but the interior walls are constructed
Of the darker material and are highly
polished. There are 20 crypts for inter-
ments, 10 on each side.
"In every detail the memorial demon
strates that the predominating thought
of the architect and of the builder was
permanence. Massive, but harmonious,
in every line, in many respects severely
plain, the structure gives one the i'm
preston of age; as though it had been
a part of the eminence on which it stands
for centuries and would so continue for
centuries to come. Extreme simplicity
characterizes the interior but the aus
terity ever associated with a memorial
Of this nature is beautifully softened by
the artistic and inspiring landscape win
dow in the north portal and which illus
trates the first verse of the AID Psalm /:
As the hart panteth after the water
brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee
0 God
CHANGING at the scene one is uplifted
by the atmosphere of rest and quiet, ex-
cept for the supposition of the little
murmuring brook that wends its way in
and out among the messy hooks of a
delightfully."- shaded wood In the fore
ground a graceful hart leisurely drinks
from the pure mountain stream. The
slender trunks of the various trees ris.
ing on either bank are surmounted by
a mass Of autumn foliage, the color
scheme rich and harmonious in all that
nature provides for the years closing
season, browns, reds, and partial greens
predominating.
",rhe site of this work of art in stone
is the crest of the hill in our beautiful
Park Lawn cemetery. Upon each side
of the Everett lot is l5-foot reserva.
ton to be devoted solely to the planting
of shrubs and blooming plants. In rear
and to the north of the tomb 10 acres OF
sloping hillside will be planted to trees
that an appropriate background may be
secured, and when the plans for the
landscape gardner have been carried out
the work and its setting will be com.
plete.
when looking upon this dignifed and
chaste building and upon the wide pan.
Drama of mountain and valley that sur.
rounds it, making up Gods beautiful
out-of doors, one can truly say with the
poet;
"'And is she dead whose glorious minC
lifts ours on high;
To live in hearts we leave behind is MOI
to die.