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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
MODERN CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS 
WILMINGTON AND BRANDYWINE CEMETERY CHAPEL, WILMINGTON, 
DELAWARE, 
are of Georgia hard pine, finished in the 
natural wood, slightly darkened and the 
same wood is used for window and door 
frariies and for the main entrance doors, 
which are hung with ornamental wrought 
strap hinges. 
The pews, pulpit and reading desk are 
of dark quartered white oak. 
The lift, shown in the center of the main 
floor, has the platform level with the main 
floor, so that anyone wishing to have the 
remains interred in the temporary receiv- 
ing vaults built in the basement may have 
the casket wheeled directly onto the lift 
and at the proper time in the services 
slowly lowered, as in a grave, to the base- 
ment, where it can be wheeled off and 
deposited in one of the vaults. There are 
twelve of these receiving vaults. 
FLOOR PLAN, WILMINGTON AND BRANDYWINE CHAPEL. 
Two very different, but interesting types 
of architecture and construction in the 
chapel, the superintendent’s residence and 
the office, the three chief buildings of ad- 
ministration in the cemetery, are offered 
for study in the new buildings illustrated 
here that have been recently completed in 
River View Cemetery, Portland, Ore., and 
in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, 
Wilmington, Del. 
One of them illustrates a very effective 
use of native stone for both interior and 
exterior finish and the other shows a very 
simple but effective and decorative use of 
brick construction. 
The chapel of the Wilmington and 
Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Del., 
is built entirely of Foxcroft stone, , both in- 
side and outside ; the inside of the wall 
being faced with the stone and pointed 
similar to the outside. The window sills 
are of Indiana limestone. The main floor 
of the chapel is of concrete, with a fin- 
ished cement top laid off like tile. 
Over the nave of the chapel there are 
two roof trusses, which support the hor- 
izontal roof rafters. These trusses, roof 
rafters and the entire ceiling of the chapel 
The stair to the basement is concealed 
by the front part of the platform, which 
hinges up. 
The Foxcroft stone, of which the build- 
ing is built, is a beautiful stone coming 
in thin horizontal layers suitable for this 
class of work and with a variety of shade 
and color in browns and grays. The stone 
is not dressed, but is left in the rock 
finish and only dressed with the hammer 
enough to obtain splays for window jambs, 
outlines for buttresses and bevel for water 
table. 
The building is roofed with dark red 
slate. 
The building is heated by six gas radia- 
tors in the corners and gas lights are 
provided for pulpit and reading desk. 
The building is arranged to seat one 
hundred people, but fifty more can be 
accommodated by the use of movable 
chairs. 
The building is cruciform in plan, as the 
plan shows, having the central tower sup- 
ported on four stone Gothic arches, as will 
be seen from the interior view. 
The construction of the building is such 
INTERIOR OF WILMINGTON AND BRANDYWINE CHAPEL. 
