PARK AND CEMETERY 
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RECEIVING VAULT, WASHINGTON CEMETERY, WASHINGTON, PA. 
Cemetery Receiving' Vault, Washington, Pa. 
The chapel and receiving vault shown in the illus- 
tration is to be erected in Washington Cemetery, 
Washington, Pa., by Campbell & Horigan, of Pitts- 
burg. 
The structure stands on the side of a hill, command- 
ing one of the finest landscape views in the cemetery, 
and is to be completed by September. 
The extreme length of the building is about 32 
feet ; the outer width of the chapel about 18 feet, and 
of the vault, projecting about four feet farther on 
either side as shown, about 24 feet. The exterior is 
of granite and the interior of gray and pink marble. 
The roof will be in five pieces and the floor of the 
portico in one piece, 5x16 feet. Four fluted Doric 
columns 18 inches in diameter and 9 feet 10 inches 
high, two of them standing on each side of the entrance, 
support the portico. 
A beautiful double bronze door five feet wide and 
seven feet high, with four grilled panels of plate 
glass, opening inward, will admit to the main room, 
or chapel, where the funeral ceremonies will be held. 
This chapel is 10 feet in depth and 16 feet in width, 
with a marble seat extending across each end. Light 
will be admitted from the panels in the doorway, the 
transom above it, and from the two windows on each 
side, as well as from the two art glass windows beneath 
the pediment in the gable, the light from the latter 
windows, coming down through a marble archway 
in the ceiling, 15 feet above the floor of the chapel, 
which will be laid in mosaic. 
The entrance to the vault at the rear of the chapel 
will be through double bronze doors with grilled pan- 
els. The chamber of the vault will be 12 feet deep 
and 8 feet wide. Light will be admitted to it by two art 
glass windows in each side of the cupola overhead. 
There will be space for 32 crypts, each of which will 
be closed by a bronze door. 
Every precaution will be taken to insure good venti- 
lation and drainage. The walls are about a foot thick 
and air chambers opening on the second step of the 
portico pass between the walls and lining to exits in 
the pediments beneath the gables and under the cornice 
of the vault in the rear. 
As shown in the illustration, only about three feet of 
the vault will show above ground at the rear of the 
chapel. The structure stands on the avenue approach- 
ing the McLennan circle, facing the southeast en- 
trance of the cemetery, and will make an attractive and 
useful improvement which the officials have long 
wished to make. 
