Mausoleum at Westview Cemetery, 1680 Westview Drive SW. Thanks to reader Greg D. for sending me the contemporary photo (below).
Westview has been in business since 1884 and has interred over 100,000 people.
Date: 1947
GSU FILE: LBCB117-012a
TOP PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPT, PULLEN LIBRARY, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Among the well-known people who were buried here are Ivan Allen Jr. (mayor of Atlanta from 1962 - 70), Coca Cola bigshots Asa Candler and Robert Woodruff, inventor Alonzo Deloach, Atlanta Journal publisher Henry W. Grady, civil rights pioneers Benjamin Mays and Donald Lee Hollowell, and Alice Hawthorne, who died in the Olympic park bombing in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Date: 2008
For a much larger version of the Westview Cemetery mausoleum photo, click here. . .or on the photo itself.
