Category:Goodrich obelisk

English: "Expensive as is the obelisk form, it is being extensively employed by families, who, like the Goodriches of Chicago, wish simplicity with effect in memorial stone. The Goodrich obelisk is being duplicated in San Francisco and in New York."--Stone, v. 9, no. 4, Sept. 1894, p. 327.

English: [...] the Goodrich monument in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago, has attracted great attention, and it has been copied many times. It requires a true understanding of propoertion and a wide knowledge to produce an obelisk, simple as it appears to be, that will stand the best of true artistic criticism, and become a standard."--The Monumental News, v. 8, 1, Jan. 1869, p. 25.

English: The Wetmore & Morse Granite Company (Incorporated) [...]. The company have now in process of construction fine monuments for the late Albert E. Godorich, of steamboat fame, and the Kirk family, both to be erected at Rose Hill Cemetery."--Half-century's Progress of the City of Chicago: The City's Leading Manufacturers and Merchants, Chicago: International Publishing Company, 1887, p. 205.