DescriptionWainwright Tomb, Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO - 53051447672.jpg
English: Built in 1892, this Sullivanesque and Chicago School-style mausoleum was designed by Louis Sullivan for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright, and her husband, Ellis Wainwright, a brewery owner, who had commissioned Sullivan to design the Wainwright Building in Downtown St. Louis, which was completed around the same time as Charlotte’s death. The tomb is a small, yet graceful structure, which evokes the tragic beauty of the life and death of Charlotte Dickson Wainwright (1857-1891), whom died at the age of 34, and was noted in St. Louis social circles for her beauty. Ellis Wainwright joined Charlotte in the tomb upon his death in 1924 at the age of 74. The tomb features a limestone-clad exterior with bands of Sullivanesque carved trim surrounding the windows and doors, and framing the top of the elevations, with copper doors, a domed roof, a front terrace flanked by piers, and copper screens at the window openings on the side facades. The tomb was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a St. Louis Landmark in 1971. Today, the tomb is widely regarded as the best mausoleum designed by Sullivan, and is the most architecturally significant structure in historic Bellefontaine Cemetery on the north side of St. Louis.
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