Huntington Chapel, Greenlawn

Columbus, Ohio

Date: 1902
Address: 1000 Greenlawn Ave.
Style: classic Roman
rotunda of fitted mosaic tile and carved plaster. Tiffany’s of New York was commissioned to design and install the two grand stained glass windows and two mosaic murals representing Truth and Wisdom.
Later expanded to its current capacity. The mausoleum serves as the final resting place for about 100-200 people, including former Pelatiah Huntington and Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes.
Cost: $24,827
Listed on the National Register of Historical Places 2007

Historical Photos of Huntington Chapel Greenlawn

Landscape architect Howard Daniels designed the original portion of Green Lawn Cemetery in 1848. Frank Packard designed Green Lawn's Chapel mausoleum, the Hayden family mausoleum, and the Packard mausoleum.

Arguably the most impressive of mausoleum is the Hayden Mausoleum, commissioned by banker Charles H. Hayden in 1904. Nearby the Hayden Mausoleum is Green Lawn's Chapel Mausoleum. Dedicated in 1902, the Chapel Mausoleum features two stained glass windows and two mosaics representing Wisdom and Truth. All were commissioned by P.W. Huntington, the founder of Huntington Bank, and designed by Tiffany's of New York. The building was originally erected in 1902, and then was subsequently added to with an additional wing (to the right of the original domed structure, looking to the front) and carillon bells in the 1960s.

Packard’s personal mausoleum is of neo-Egyptian revival style in gray granite. The entranceway features an Egyptian doorway with lotus capitals and a bronze door with grillwork. An open lotus flower represents rebirth. The cornice tops it decorated with a winged solar motif also associated with the afterlife.