Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1897 — JOHN W. MACKAY’S TOMB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN W. MACKAY’S TOMB.

Great Mausoleum Built in Brooklyn at a Coat of $300,000. John W. Mackay’s “home after death’’ is rapidly nearing completion. The Mackay tomb, or mausoleum, near the Ninth avenue entrance of Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, will soon be completed. This structure, which Mr. Mackay has erected after the fashion set by several of New York’s prominent men, who built their tombs before they died, is one of the noblest in the necropolis. The approximate cost will be $300,000. The

Mac-kay mausoleum is, within, like a miniature church auditorium. No evidences of the Teal character of the place appear. It is lighted and heated with electricity, and at least fifty persons could attend mass said in its space. Yet in no way is it catac<*nb-like. There are twentytwo crypts for bodies. The interior is lined throughout with marble, with a wainscoting of black Belgian capped with Connemara green. The roof is formed of a tremendous slab of granite—the largest ever quarried in this country. It came from Maine, and its dimensions are 22 feet square by 16 inches thick. Its weight is fifty tons.

MACKAY’S “HOME AFTER DEATH.”