PARK AND CEMETERY 
87 
OXE OF THE NATIVE MAI'LES OF OAK HILL. 
of granite boulder columns and walls, and orna- 
mental gates of wrought iron after the style of 
early mediaeval art metal work. iMr. Louis H. Gib- 
son of Indianapolis is the architect who designed 
this handsome entrance which was erected by iNIr. 
Charles F. S. Neal, a citizen of Lebanon, as a me- 
morial to his wife, Mary E. Neal. 
The total width of the structure, from end to end, 
is seventy-six feet, the main part being constructed 
of selected granite boulders cemented together. 
There are six posts, each pair being respectively 
i8, II and 8 feet in height, the last pair terminating 
the long, outward-curving wing walls which flank 
the gateway. The boundary on either side is con- 
tinued from these final abutting posts for some 900 
feet by hedges of arbor vitie. The large gate for 
carnages, and the two smaller ones for pedestrians 
are of wrought iron in an effective design, which is 
completed by lamps of corresponding antic|ue 
shape which cap the tallest pair of columns. 
The entire structure is satisfactory to the eve and 
in feeling. Massive, yet not heavy, the memorial 
is in every sense artistic and a credit to all con- 
cerned, and should serve as an object lesson to those 
who seek an ideal means of expressing love and 
respect for relatives and friends who have “gone 
before.’’ 
[Memorials of this character suggest breadth and 
individuality in those who present them. They 
stand for citizenship rather than selfishness. They 
have meaning such as never can be held or ex- 
pressed by individual memorial stones. 
[Mr. Neal has put his home town, the Cemetery 
Association, and devotees of lieauty still further m 
his debt by gathering ampelopsis vines in variety 
and from various celebrated or interesting sources 
to decorate the stone work of this impressive en- 
trance. These include plants from the Old South 
Church, Boston ; Harvard College ; the grave of 
Francis Scott Key at Fredericksburg; the old City 
Gate, St. Augustine, Fla. ; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 
Concord, [Mass.; the grave of Gen. Stuart, Holly- 
wood Cemetery, Richmond, AG. : and Aletarie Cem- 
etery, New Orleans. This fact adds the crowning 
touch of beauty and sentiment to an unusually 
happy expression of high ideals. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
PLAN OF OAK HILL CEMETERY, LEBANON, IND. 
Earnshaw & Punshon, Landscape Archs. 
