Sidney Lovell

Sidney Lovell (February 26, 1867 — August 6, 1938) was an American architect best known for designing mausoleums, and to a lesser extent theaters and opera houses.

[2] The Lovells were among Racine's earliest settlers (the town had only been founded in 1841),[3] and Philip earned a living as a butcher.

)[4] In 1882, architect James M. Wood arrived in Racine for the opening of the Blake Opera House, which he had designed and which he was to manage.

Wood and Lovell focused on commissions in Chicago and New York City, while Claflin handled West Coast business.

[13] The same year, Wood & Lovell opened a branch office in Chicago, to which the two original partners removed.

[1] Among the projects on which Lovell and Wood worked were the Broadway Theatre in Denver, Colorado, in 1890;[15] the Marquam Grand Opera House in Portland, Oregon, in 1890;[16] the Loring Opera House in Riverside, California, in 1890;[16] the Tacoma Theater in Tacoma, Washington, in 1890;[17][7] the Yosemite Theater in Stockton, California, in 1892;[16][18] Stockwell's Theatre in San Francisco in 1892;[19] the Empire Theater in Quincy, Illinois, in 1893;[14] the Lafayette Square Opera House in Washington, D.C., in 1895;[20][21] and the Jefferson Theatre in Portland, Oregon, in 1896.

[30] Lovell continued to design non-theatrical structures, such as apartment buildings,[31] but did not focus his work in this area until about 1913.

[48] This is the largest collection of secular Tiffany-designed glass in the United States,[49] and was valued in 1994 at $10 million ($20,556,803 in 2023 dollars).

[50] As Lovell designed mausoleums, he came to realize that there were fundamental problems facing above-ground burial.

[58][59] Lovell designed a mausoleum for Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1919,[60] and later that year designed and erected a large family monument for the Francis Joseph Reitz family in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana.

[67] In 1923, Lovell was commissioned to design a large mausoleum at Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

[69] Lovell designed a public mausoleum for Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York, in 1924,[70] and a unique Gothic stone entrance to conceal a 60-foot (18 m) high water tower in 1928.

[72] Lovell designed another Cleveland-area mausoleum in 1926 for Mayfield Cemetery in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

[46] In 1925, Lovell won a "first mention" award in the Remodeled Building Class for his work on 224 E. Ontario Street in Chicago.