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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE ROCKEFELLER MONUMENT, LAKEVIEW 
CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 
At intervals during the progress of quarrying 
and cutting the Rockefeller monument, recently 
THE ROCKEFELLER MONUMENT, LAKEVIEW 
CEMETERY, CLEVELAND, O. 
completed in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, O., 
has been the object of considerable attention. Its 
simplicity and magnitude, as including among its 
members one of the few monoliths in existence ex- 
ceeding fifty feet in length, and the difficulties that 
had to be encountered and provided for in the 
transportation to the site, made it a prominent ob- 
ject in cemetery memorials, and the success of its 
final erection has been awaited with interest. 
We are enabled herewith to give a view of the 
completed memorial as it stands to-day on the 
Rockefeller lot in Cleveland, and also illustrations 
showing the method and construction required to 
set its huge blocks of Barre granite. 
Its dimensions are as follows: First base 14 
feet by 14 feet by 3 feet; second base, 9 feet 2 
inches by 9 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 8 inches; die, 6 
feet 8 inches by 6 feet 8 inches by 7 feet; shaft, 5 
feet by 5 feet by 52 feet, giving a total height of 
65 feet 8 inches. To secure a stable foundation it 
rests on a bed of concrete 8 feet deep, which should 
insure an absolute permanence. 
Considering the dimensions of the monument 
it has been fairly rapid in its execution, the con- 
tract having been made on April 27, 1898, and it 
was completed September 12, 1899, a period of 
less than seventeen months — a short time for so 
large a monument. 
Not the least interesting feature connected 
with the work was the erection, which was carried 
out by Mr. W. F. Howland of Barre, Vt., who de- 
signed and 
constru c t e d 
the rigging 
employed in 
raising it. 
The illustra- 
t i q n s very 
graphic ally 
describe 
these opera- 
tions, and a 
few further 
details will 
suffice. The 
derrick was 
built of six- 
teen-inch 
square pine 
t i m b e r s , 
spliced with 
hardwood 
planks, and 
the four legs 
were spread 
at the bottom 
and braced to 
maintain rig- 
i'd i t y; the 
tops of the 
timbers were 
united by 
cross heads. 
This derrick 
was moved 
SETTING THE SHAFT, ROCKEFELLER 
MONUMENT. 
