Graceland Cemetery Tour Part 2

Daniel H.Burnham, architect and city planner buried on his own island.

A.C. McClurg, Chicago book publisher and bookseller.  Note the clover.

Mies van der Rohe, architect widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of Modern architecture.

The Palmers, owners of The Palmer House in Chicago.  Great view even in death.

George Pullman, Pullman railroad cars.  He was buried at night in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault. Several tons of cement were poured to prevent his body from being exhumed and desecrated by labor activists.

We didn't get to see Marshall Field due to the cemetery's closing time.  I'm sure it would be very easy to spend an entire day just looking at the final resting places of some of Chicago's greatest.  The cemetery has a good website with the history of the people I mentioned plus many others.http://www.gracelandcemetery.org/.

Graceland Cemetery Tour

I went on a guided tour this weekend of what a local historical association calls "Chicago's own 'Valley of the Kings' tour".  What started out as a rainy gray day turned into a beautiful fall day perfect for an outside walking tour.

Lorado Taft's "Eternal Silence" at the grave of Dexter Graves

Louis Henri Sullivan, distinguished architect who died penniless because of alcoholism.  Pennies are left all over his headstone.  Pennies for the penniless, I guess.  Sullivan actually designed several tombs here prior to his own arrival.

Getty and Ryerson, designed by Sullivan

The Reclusive Ruby

She does exist, but few have seen her.