Getty Tomb

Sullivan designed this mausoleum in Graceland Cemetery in 1890 for Henry Harrison Getty, in memory of his wife Carrie Eliza, three years after building the Ryerson tomb a short walk away in the same grounds. It is a plain limestone cube whose upper half and bronze gates carry the interlaced ornament Sullivan was working out at the same moment on his commercial fronts, at a scale you can read from arm's length. The cemetery is open to walk through, which makes it one of the few Sullivan works whose detail can be examined without a ticket or an appointment.

Address

4001 N. Clark St.

Building Type

yes

Category: Culture & History

Tags: louis-sullivan, 1890, graceland-cemetery, mausoleum, ornament

Coordinates: 41.9612376, -87.6612102

Part of Louis Sullivan's buildings standing in Chicago

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