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Kyle Harris

Morbid Architecture
« on: April 12, 2006, 10:00:26 PM »
I had a very morbid thought while de-vining a tree today. (Maybe it was the chainsaw)...

Do any architects have any gravesites of note?

Anybody ever make a pilgrimage to an architect's gravesite?

Joe Hancock

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2006, 10:14:03 PM »
Only because jokes are my first response...

(Insert name of your most depised architect here) pretty much died on every site he ever worked on!

I'll be here all week...

Joe
" What the hell is the point of architecture and excellence in design if a "clever" set up trumps it all?" Peter Pallotta, June 21, 2016

"People aren't picking a side of the fairway off a tee because of a randomly internally contoured green ."  jeffwarne, February 24, 2017

Bill_McBride

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2006, 10:53:46 PM »
Young Tom Morris and Alan Robertson have beautiful gravesites in the cathedral grounds in St. Andrews.  I imagine Old Tom is there somewhere as well.  Alan R is credited with the modern design of the Road Hole, I think, but I don't think Young Tom did any architecture before his untimely death.

mike_beene

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2006, 11:09:01 PM »
Perry Maxwell's is at Dornick Hills a short walk from the green on the cliff hole.You can see for miles up there.

Eric Franzen

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2006, 03:51:49 AM »
MacKenzies ashes were spread over Pasatiempo when he died in 1933.

Not a gravesite, but I am sure that you would agree that it is a memorial site worthy of note.

 





Brad Klein

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2006, 06:50:40 AM »
Not morbid at all, sounds like a way of paying homage. I've visited and photographed Donald Ross's grave in Newton Town Cemetery in Mass; and C.B. Macdonald's and Seth Raynor's graves in Southampton Cemetery (they are no more than a short par-3 away from each other). Doffed my cap in a moment of silence in front of MacKenzie's home on the 6th hole at Pasatiempo (after duly hitting my second shot o.b. onto the lawn and leaving it there out of respect).

It would be morbid to revel in their deaths but it's a reflection of what we admire that we occasionally honor them.

Marty Bonnar

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2006, 06:59:58 AM »
Brad,
I too paused on that 6th Fairway for a moment's thought.
Ever the consummate golf tourist, I also took my camera out and snapped a reminder of the modest dwelling.
Strangely, that picture is a tad blurry.
Whether this was caused by the effects of the cold on my hands, the low-light due to the precipitation or by something rather more ethereal I cannot say.

FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Bill_McBride

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2006, 08:02:33 AM »
Brad, wonder why Ross was buried in Massachusetts after all the years he spent in Pinehurst.  As I understand it he had a home in Pinehurst and operated the Pine Crest Inn for years until he died there in Pinehurst.  Interested to know if you have the details.

Jeff_Brauer

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #8 on: April 13, 2006, 09:50:00 AM »
I visited the Maxwell grave when redoing Dornick Hills years ago.  I also made the stop at the Morris graves in St. Andrews.  After reading that Tillie was buried in Toledo, and having relatives there, I tried to find his grave, only to later find out that article was wrong.  

After reading Brad's book, which had a letter from his final address (living with his daughter) I went by the home where he presumably died.  The neighborhood is, shall we say, not as elegant as it was when he lived there (former Uptown neighborhood, now just a hood) and I didn't stay long, as the lady and and her sons who lived there couldn't understand why I was snapping photos of their house, and I didn't think the explanation would help.

As to my actual work, I have uncovered civil war stuff so I know some folks have died on the grounds of my golf course in Atlanta.  I have always wanted to do a bunker shaped like a buried body (more when working in the suburbs of Chicago) to suggest a buried body, but no one has allowed that yet.
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Jim_Kennedy

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2006, 10:09:27 AM »
Kyle,
Just one, Charles Banks. His gravesite is in Salisbury Ct., about 1/4 mile from my home. It's just a simple marker, about 12" by 18", laid flush with the ground.
"I never beat a well man in my life" - Harry Vardon

Andy Doyle

Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2006, 11:13:45 AM »
He doesn't have too many architectural credits, but Bob Jones is buried in Oakland Cemetery in downtown Atlanta, about a mile from my office.

The week before the Masters each year, a bunch of people stop by and put golf balls on his grave.

Andy

Andy Doyle

Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2006, 02:27:57 PM »
Anybody ever make a pilgrimage to an architect's gravesite?

Not exactly a pilgrimage, but I did take a walk at lunch today:



Before anyone thinks I'm a completely odd, I should explain that Oakland Cemetery is pretty close to downtown Atlanta which is notably deficient in green space, so a number of people run and walk through the cemetery - sort of like a park.

Andy

Paul_Turner

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #12 on: April 13, 2006, 04:55:37 PM »


I haven't been there!
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can't get to heaven with a three chord song

BCrosby

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #13 on: April 13, 2006, 05:37:23 PM »
Where is there?

Tony_Muldoon

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2006, 06:09:58 PM »


From the recent Biography by Walter Stephen.

He relates in 1924 Park began to loose control of the business and suffered a breakdown. Brother Mungo took him home to Musselburgh and he died in an Edinburgh hospital within the year.
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2025 Craws Nest Tassie, Carnoustie.

Paul_Turner

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Re:Morbid Architecture
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2006, 08:22:12 PM »
Bob

East Hendred, Oxfordshire.
can't get to heaven with a three chord song