The Linwood Mausoleum is a massive limestone structure in Linwood Cemetery,
Paragould, Arkansas
Paragould is the county seat of Greene County, and the 19th-largest city in Arkansas, in the United States. The city is located in northeastern Arkansas on the eastern edge of Crowley's Ridge, a geologic anomaly contained within the Arkansas delta ...
. Occupying the highest ground in the cemetery, it is a rectangular single-story Classical Revival limestone structure, with stained-glass windows. Its interior walls are finished with gray-veined white marble. The entry is sheltered by a portico with Doric columns. The mausoleum houses 170 crypts. Built in 1920 by a group of private citizens, it was later conveyed to the city, and is (as of 2007) Arkansas' only known city-owned mausoleum. It is also architecturally distinctive in the region for its heavy limestone construction and Classical Revival features.
The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
See also
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Mount Holly Mausoleum
The Mount Holly Mausoleum was designed by architects Thompson and Harding in 1917 and is located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Its architectural significance lies in its austerity of simple Greek Revival design. The structure was added to the Nati ...
: NRHP listing in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas
Buildings and structures completed in 1920
Buildings and structures in Paragould, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Greene County, Arkansas
Mausoleums on the National Register of Historic Places
Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
1920 establishments in Arkansas
Burial monuments and structures in Arkansas
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