[3] Among its most distinctive elements are the marble pillars, topped with capitals of the Doric order, that line the main entrance.

The main portion of the interior, built in a basilican style with multiple aisles, contains approximately four hundred concrete and marble crypts, and the building's wings house individual family crypts.

[2] Located along West Street adjacent to the cemetery's main entrance, the mausoleum was the brainchild of local doctor J.P. Collett.

He chose a unique design for the structure: no other Egyptian Revival mausolea have been built near Greenville.

[2] Most historic cemetery buildings in western Ohio employed other styles of architecture; for example, the mausoleum in Fostoria and the Woodland Cemetery offices in Dayton were built in the Neoclassical and Romanesque Revival styles respectively.