The most elaborate mausoleum in Glendale Akron is this one. Some have walls of solid stone, this one has stonework mudded in, and patterned. This was a personal project. There are Greek columns. There is a double eagle ornament. There is a walkway.
Walter A. Franklin *1868 was a plasterer, mason, and then in business with his brother a contractor, Franklin Brothers. Walter's mausoleum was built in 1910 (his first wife died that year), the outside statues were made in 1914. Walter died in in 1943. He had much opportunity to see his monument. His second wife lived an hundred years, she died in 1993. Inside there are three fine religious stained glass windows, one is of the Ascension of Jesus.
Outside are a pair of lion monuments, a male and cub, and a female and cub. On the sides are some mythical sea tableauxs? In the front below the lions there is a gorgon?
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