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PARK AND CEMETERY 
ENTRANCE TO MOUNT OLIVE CEMETERY, CHICAGO, CHAS. THISSLEW, ARCHITECT. 
Entrance and Office Building's, Mount Olive Cemetery* CHicag'o. 
The view and plan shown on this page illustrate 
the entrance and office buildings recently completed 
at Mount Olive Cemetery, Chicago. The building is 
of cream-colored Bedford stone, with a slate roof, and 
cost about $13,000. The interior is finished in oak, 
with floors of Italian Mosaic, and has two fireplaces 
finished in Roman pressed brick and terra cotta. 
Adjoining the building on the north a large green- 
house is under construction. The main building, 205 
by 25 feet, is already completed. The total cost of the 
greenhouses will be about $10,000. 
Mount Olive is situated in the garden spot of the 
northwestern suburbs of Chicago. The grounds, of 
great natural beauty, have been beautified in a man- 
ner in which the patrons take commendable pride. 
The cemetery has taken as its motto this stanza from 
Bryant’s Thanatopsis : 
“To him who in the love of nature 
Holds communion with her visible forms, 
She speaks a various language.” 
