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A MAUSOLEUM OF RARELY ORIGINAL DESIGN 
One of the most interesting specimens 
of monumental architecture in this coun- 
try that is now being executed for Fair- 
mount Cemetery, Denver, and is expected 
to be completed at some time this season, 
is the Snails mausoleum. Fairmount Cem- 
etery has some of the finest monuments 
to he seen in any American cemetery, and 
ever been developed in this country. It is 
a composite design, with suggestions of 
Egyptian, art nouveau, and other architec- 
tural styles that have been so skillfully 
wrought into a unified, dignified and beau- 
tiful specimen of architecture as to make 
this structure the most interesting mauso- 
leum of recent years. There have been 
eighteen columns, 9-6 high, 2-0 at base, 
with caps 2-4 each cut in one piece. Inside 
will be six columns 9-6 high, 1-6 at the 
base and 1-10 at the cap. 
The floor will be of polished Barre gran- 
ite and there will be two sarcophagii, each 
cut in one piece. An art glass window will' 
contain the Smails escutcheon and the 
SMAILS MAUSOLEUM. NOW BEING ERECTED IN DENVER. COL. 
AN ORIGINAL DESIGN BY RICHARD A. SWANSON, DENVER, COL. 
visitors to Denver will find much there to 
interest them, and nothing more interest- 
ing than this fine mausoleum. 
There is so seldom anything of real 
originality in the architecture of modern 
mausoleums that a really original and dis- 
tinctive design for a mausoleum is an event 
of great moment in the history of mor- 
tuary architecture. 
Our best mausoleums, while they are 
beautifully designed, well proportioned and 
built with all the skill that modern con- 
struction knows, are seldom any more than 
endless repetitions of the copies of Greek 
temples. As far as exterior design is con- 
cerned, there is practically very little essen- 
tial difference in their appearance, except 
in the size, the arrangement of the col- 
umns, or the massiveness of the stones. 
We show on this page one of the most 
original designs for a mausoleum that has 
larger and costlier works, but few in this 
country of such individual distinctive de- 
sign. 
This work is the design of Richard A. 
Swanson, of Denver, and is to be erected 
in that city by the R. A. Swanson Monu- 
mental Co. as a memorial to the late John 
DeWitt Smails. 
The contract was given by Mrs. Smails 
on a basis of design, after a careful con- 
sideration of plans by some of the leading 
mausoleum builders of the country, and is 
to cost $45,000. 
The structure is to be as massive and 
thorough in construction as it is beautiful, 
and will, it is said, be the largest mauso- 
leum in the West. 
It will be 25-10 wide by 30-6 long by 21-2 
high and will be of Barre granite through- 
out, both exterior and interior. The chief 
decorative feature of the exterior will be 
army record of Mr. Smails, and the ceil- 
ing will be paneled and beamed. 
The granite work will be all twelve-cut,, 
exterior and interior, except the polished' 
floor, and memorial tablets which are also- 
to be polished. 
The top stylobate or C course is in four 
pieces only; in fact, the entire structure is 
built as heavy and in as few pieces as pos- 
sible. There are but ninety pieces in the 
exterior and forty-one in the interior. The 
paramount idea was massive construction. 
It is to stand on the largest and most beau- 
tiful lot in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, 
on a knoll adjoining the main entrance to- 
the cemetery. 
The work is now being cut for Mr. Swan- 
son by Marr & Gordon, of Barre, Vt. It 
will contain about twenty-two carloads of 
finished Barre granite, besides the Colorado 
granite to be used in the foundations. 
