Blue Sky Mausoleum
As if Forest Lawn was not famous enough, back in 2004 FLW's Blue Sky Mausoleum was completed adding yet another architectural destination to the already populated Buffalo road map. The mausoleum overlooks a serene pond, and viewers can walk from the top down to the bottom via a series of step situated in the middle of what is basically a tomb consisting of 24 crypts.
At the top of the structure sits a monolith flanked by two benches. The inscription on the monolith reads, "... A burial facing the open sky... The Whole Could Not Fail Of Noble Effect."
From Forest Lawn:
"In his pioneering concept for Blue-Sky Mausoleum, Frank Lloyd Wright broke the box of memorial architecture tradition. His design fully manifests his principle of organic architecture. The structure is integrated into the landscape, and its granite echoes the stone of nearby monuments. The blue sky is its ceiling, and living greens gently suggest its walls. The edifice overlooks a peaceful pond.
"In this serene setting, visitors feel the eternal connections between earth and sky, and lives present and past.
"Blue-Sky Mausoleum is located in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York the cemetery for which it was designed. This venerable yet vital organization owns a distinctive place in American history and has long been regarded as a visionary leader among its peers.
"Blue-Sky Mausoleum takes its place among a group of distinguished Frank Lloyd Wright designs in Buffalo, New York. Seven were built in the early 20th century; three new structures are being added in the 21st. Blue-Sky Mausoleum is the first of these."
www.blueskymausoleum.com/
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