Feature Repairs: Watch Our Progress

This year, Woodlawn Cemetery staff will be completing repairs to many historic monuments-- for both safety and conservation purposes. A number of important historic tombstones have been chosen for a special web-based project. We will be making conservation repairs to these monument, and, as progress is made, we will be updating this webpage and the Watch Our Progress: Featured Repairs Photo Gallery.

Repairs targetted for completion in 2006 include:

• a set of broken marble slabs (fallen and damaged before 1985)
• a very tall historic marble obelisk (leaning heavily)
  

We will also be reporting our progress in a number of complex and long-term repairs. These will include work on targets for 2006/7: such as,

• the only marble boxtomb monument in Woodlawn (the monument is a hollow marble box filled with limestones, with the actual interment underground)
• an historic marble angel with broken wings
  

Donations to support the conservation work will be gladly accepted: any monies received will be used to defray the costs of these particular repairs, and/or to help fund future conservation work. Alternatively, donations can be made to the Care & Maintenance Fund for Monuments.