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PARK AKD CEMETERY. 
COMBINED OFFICE, RESIDENCE AND CHAPEL 
visit the cemetery are free to use the 
building. 
It is built of Colonial brick, with 
stone trimmings and tile roof. All 
who have seen the building are warm 
in their praise of the officers of the 
cemetery association, the architect, 
M. L. Carr, of Indianapolis, and the 
contractor, Marion Moores, of Shelby- 
ville. 
Oak Hill Cemetery Association was 
organized in 1884 as a stock company 
The directors purchased about 
thirty-one acres of ground, east of 
the city. 
From the beginning of the organi- 
zation a number of the stockholders 
felt :tFa.t the association should not 
be of a mercenary character. In 
1892, the stockholders unanimously 
agreed to transfer the property 
to a new corporation, the rules of 
which provided that all of the pro- 
ceeds from the sale of lots and from 
all other sources should be used in 
further beautifying and extending the 
cemetery grounds. 
The present officers are as follows: 
President, H. C. Morrison; vice- 
president, T. W. Fleming; secretary 
and treasurer, G. W. F. Kirk. 
Jesse M. Keith is the superintend- 
ent, having succeeded his father, 
Joseph Keith, upon his death some 
time ago. 
A FINE TYPE OF PRIVATE COLUMBARIUM 
The Josephthal Columbarium is a fine example of archi- 
tecture and sculpture as applied to the construction of that 
rarest form of cemetery memorial, the private columbarium. 
The steady growth of the idea of cremation has familiarized 
us with the public columbarium, of which there are twenty- 
six or seven in this country, but there are only two or three 
other examples in this country of the private columbarium 
built to receive the ashes of the members of an individual 
family. Two of these have previously been illustrated in 
these pages. Monuments with a niche or other provision 
for the reception of an urn are also occasionally seen. 
This one was designed and modeled by Ernest Wise Key- 
set, the well-known New York sculptor, who also executed 
one of the other columbariums illustrated in these pages. 
The symbolic guardian figure, the urn and decorative rays 
on the front of the structure have been executed with deli- 
cate incisive touch and have been well composed to meet 
the rather difficult problem of filling the unusual space 
formed by the doors at either side of the figure. These are 
of bronze, very plain, and when open reveal marble paneled 
doors inscribed with the names of those whose ashes are 
deposited within. The whole front with its plain severe 
lines and massive construction gives an effect of monumental 
dignity and simplicity. The memorial is erected in New 
York City and the granite work was done by the Adler 
Granite and Monumental Works. The bronze was cast by 
Jno. Williams, Inc., of New York. 
COPYRIGHT 1910 BY ERNEST WISE KEYSER 
JOSEPHTHAL, COLUMBARIUM, NEW YORK. 
Ernest Wise Keyser, Sc. 
SUPERINTENDJONT'S RESIDENCE, CHAPEL AND OFFICE 
FOREST HILL CEMETERY, SHELBYVILLE, IND. 
In the smaller cemeteries where the 
same building serves for chapel, 
office, and residence for the superin- 
tendent, the architectural problem of 
making it convenient for all of these 
uses is no small task. In the new 
building recently erected in Forest 
Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, Inc!., the 
exigencies of all three of the uses 
mentioned have been provided for in 
a building that is of no little archi- 
tectural beauty. It is sightly enough 
to harmonize with the character of 
the grounds, and at the same time 
well laid out to serve a variety of 
purposes. 
This unpretentious building has 
managed to combine the character of 
both chapel and residence in its ex- 
terior appearance in an unusually suc- 
cessful manner. The chapel may also 
be used for a waiting or rest room. 
It is provided with office rooms, toilet 
rooms and other conveniences for 
the comfort of the public. All who 
