Hollywood Forever Cemetery, a renowned resting place for Hollywood legends and contemporary icons, has unveiled the tallest mausoleum in the country. The 100-foot-tall, five-story structure, called the Gower Court Mausoleum, was designed to address the cemetery's finite supply of in-ground burial plots.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery , the final resting place of Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille and other Hollywood legends — not to mention contemporary icons like Johnny Ramone, Chris Cornell and Quincy Jones — has always been a place of innovation.
Founded in 1899, it was one of the West Coast’s first nature-filled, stroll-friendly “lawn park” cemeteries, and in recent years it has famously, and amazingly, made itself into a citywide cultural destination for film screenings, concerts, yoga, art exhibitions and an annual Día de Los Muertos festival that draws about 30,000 people. The latest innovation may not be immediately apparent when you visit the rolling grounds, with their meandering pathways, swaying palms and historical architecture. That is, until you look up. Way up. A 100-foot-tall, five-story mausoleum has risen along Hollywood Forever’s west edge, designed by Silver Lake-based firms Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Diseño, or AyD. As far as the architects and the cemetery’s owners can tell, it’s the tallest mausoleum in the country. The idea for the Gower Court Mausoleum, which in January is set to provide (very) permanent housing for about 13,000 people — a mix of crypts for bodies and niches for urns — emerged more than 10 years ago in response to the cemetery’s finite supply of in-ground plots. “We’re not going to build more cemeteries in L.A., so we need to come up with creative ways to increase burial space,” said Yogu Kanthiah, Hollywood Forever’s co-owner and chief financial officer. The cemetery still has room on its land to provide in-ground burials for three decades or more, he said, but the future need is clear. The mausoleum’s initial design, outlined by one of the country’s few crypt design-build firms, was uninspired — essentially a three-story-tall plaster box. “A garage would’ve been a compliment,” quipped Lehrer Architects founder Michael Lehre
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