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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
“NOT HOW CHEAP, BUT HOW GOOD.” 
tect’s design. This attitude may account, in some measure, 
for the architect’s indifference to the welfare of the gen- 
eral monumental trade. It is reasonable, if not polite, to 
venture the deduction that a very large percentage of the 
profession has not felt it seriously necessary that it should 
know all the Euclid of mortuary art, when it may have 
mirror-finished and diamond-dyed multiples of air-cooled 
“winners” in design thrust upon it with every order for a 
stock-job. 
With the establishment of an estimate . censorship at 
Barre, why is it not also practicable to inaugurate a Bureau 
of Design, presided over by an architect of ability? These 
SUGGESTION FOR A DIFFERENT BASE TREATMENT 
offices might be merged and operated by a single execu- 
tive system. Such a plan might be effective in eliminat- 
ing bad stock-work, the bane of the cemetery, as it would 
supply the manufacturers with original designs, individual 
in character, and correct in style and proportion, for use 
in producing that ever-blooming but not ever-beautiful 
pot-boiler, the stock monument. 
These might be designed along classic lines, admitting 
of modifications to suit the taste and pocket of the buyer. 
A system of distribution might be arranged, so that many 
monuments of a given design would not be shipped to 
the same district. 
COMBINED CHAPEL, RECEIVING VAULT and OFFICE 
The mortuary chapel, receiving 
vault and superintendent’s office re- 
cently erected at Riverside cemetery, 
Appleton, Wis., by the Riverside Cem- 
etry Association of that city, is an in- 
teresting and substantial combination 
structure. The cost of the building 
was $12,753. It is old English Gothic 
in style and it is well adapted to the 
requirements of the cemetery. In the 
center rises a square tower, facing the 
west, and flanked on either side by a 
loggia. The loggia to the north con- 
nects with the receiving vault, which 
has a flat roof; the loggia south of 
the tower connects with a like struc- 
ture in which are the superintendent’s 
office and toilet rooms. The tower 
forms the vestibule and belfry of the 
chapel, which extends eastward from 
the tower and is not visible from the 
west, or front, side of the building. 
The loggias have low-pitched roofs 
of green Spanish tile and each has 
six arches, three to the east, three to 
the west. The center arches on each 
side are open to the ground and al- 
low carriages to drive through the 
loggia and permit the passengers to 
alight from the vehicles under cover, 
a convenience much appreciated. 
The central tower, the vault and of- 
fice buildings and the chapel and the 
arches of the loggias are of rough 
stone. The buttresses are capped 
with cut stone and the window sills 
are of the same material. The flat 
roofs of the tower and vaults and 
office are .of concrete, with spouts of 
the same material to shed the water. 
The floors throughout the structure 
are of concrete and the woodwork has 
an antique stain that harmonizes 
splendidly with the architecture. The 
vault is entirely of concrete. Rein- 
forced concrete shelves serve as re- 
ceptacles for the caskets. The capac- 
ity of the vault is sixty large cas- 
kets. It is 29 feet long, 16 feet 10 
inches wide. The roof is equipped 
with the most modern ventilating de- 
vices. The office building is of the 
same size as the vault. 
The chapel is 43 feet 10 inches long 
and 35 feet wide. The curve of the 
vaulted ceiling, the dark woodwork, 
the plain, roughly-plastered wall and 
arched doorways are in accord with 
the old Gothic style of the structure, 
and give an effect of simple dignity. 
The pews and the chairs and stand 
for the clergyman’s book on the 
platform are of dark wood, with 
Gothic ornamentation. The chap- 
el has a seating capacity of 
200. It is heated by a hot-air 
furnace and electrically lighted. 
CHAPEL, RECEIVING VAULT, AND OFFICE, RIVERSIDE 
CEMETERY, APPLETON, WIS. 
