Mausoleum Mausoleum A Mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. The word derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large and impressive constructions
Beecher Mausoleum rural village. Architect Cecil Bryan, who designed many community mausoleums for the National Mausoleum Company, designed the mausoleum in the Neoclassical style. The mausoleum was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 2013. Beecher Mausoleum The Beecher Mausoleum is a community mausoleum located at the junction of Illinois Route 1 and Horner Lane in Washington Township, Will County, Illinois, southeast of the village of Beecher. The mausoleum was built in 1913-14, making it an early example of a community mausoleum. The first community mausoleum in the United States was built in 1907, and changing burial traditions