Heurich Mausoleum

Heurich Mausoleum is a public artwork by sculptor Louis Amateis, located at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., United States.

The placement has their heads touching the mausoleum's roof and their bare feet resting on a low ledge.

The back of the mausoleum has a stained glass window showing an angel holding a scroll that is inscribed with the word Peace.

Amateis studied architecture at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

Working as an architectural sculptor at McKim, Mead, and White, he married his wife, Dora Ballin, in 1889.

In 1872 he founded Christian Heurich Brewing Company in Washington, which was first located in Dupont Circle, then relocated to a much larger site in 1895 between what is now the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge and the Kennedy Center.

The Heurich Mansion