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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
LAKEWOOD’S 
NEW CHAPEL 
IS A MODEL 
BUILDING 
One of the finest buildings 
devoted to cemetery uses in 
America is the new chapel 
and crematory of Lakewood 
Cemetery, Minneapolis. It 
is especially notable for the 
richness and artistic quality 
of its interior decorations, 
and in this respect, probably, 
is surpassed by no similar 
structure in America. 
The construction of Lake- 
wood chapel represents to a 
most perfect degree the 
three architectural requisites: 
permanency, sanitation, and 
artistic beauty. Permanency 
in the granite foundations 
NEW CHAPEL AND CREMATORY, LAKEWOOD CEMETERY, MINNEAPOLIS. 
“MEMORY”; DETAIL OF MURAL DECORATIONS, 
I.AKEWOOD CEMETERY CHAPEL. 
and walls; sanitation in that each 
part of the interior can be perfectly 
and easily kept cleaned; and beauty, 
because in the embellishment of the 
interior the mosaic and marble is de- 
signed and set with an artistic skill 
that has not been surpassed in this 
country. 
The design of the building was ex- 
ecuted by Architect Harry ,W. Jones, 
of Minneapolis. The interior decora- 
tion, in its harmonious combination 
of mosaics, marble and bronze, was 
designed and placed under the di- 
rection of Charles R. Lamb, of New 
York. The construction was by Pike 
& Cook, Contractors, of Minneapolis; 
and it is desired that these who have 
produced this monumental work, that 
will long stand as one of the most 
notable architectural creations of its 
generation, may each be credited with 
his part in its completion. 
In considering a proper style of 
architecture for the chapel, the archi- 
tect sought a form which, while har- 
monizing with its monumental en- 
vironment, should as little as possible 
interfere with the landscape beauty 
of the site. Thus the broad reposeful 
masses of San Marco at Venice and 
St. Sophia or Constantinople sug- 
gested the byzantine Romanesque as 
a most appropriate style to be fol- 
lowed, especially as the Romanesque 
character of the entrance gateway and 
lodge called for similarity in design. 
The materials selected were of the 
