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Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, May 28, 2013, 01:55:39 AM

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May 28, 2013, 01:55:39 AM Last Edit: May 28, 2013, 01:57:51 AM by M. Nigel Salt
So, one of my favorite places in Portland is the Portland Memorial Mausoleum. This place is a fucking trip. It's eight haphazard and slightly decrepit stories of crypts built into a cliff overlooking a swamp, started in 1901 and just added onto willy-nilly to the present day. It's full of ramps and staircases and elevators that don't go to all the floors, as well as an awful lot of chapels and statuary and a very very large glass bowl fountain. The roof has been leaking for decades, the floor is uneven, every level has a different oddly distinct smell, and the bottom floor is only accessible via one terrifying elevator whose doors somehow manage to open with a loud bang.

Here it is from the front:



From the back:



There is no rhyme or reason to the floor plan. It's like they just started building one day, and kept going at random. There are new cabinets for urns built into random corners alongside crypts that are a century old. It is insanely huge and rambling and there are nested mezzanines and there is a part built in the tens and a part built in the 1970's or 80's and parts from all the decades in between.






Just Google Image search it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Portland+Memorial+Mausoleum&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=8f2jUYmtC-L5igKeg4DABA&biw=1160&bih=748&sei=YgCkUf3RNYHViwLdzICgAQ

I took a bunch of pictures today, I'll post them later.
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#1
May 28, 2013, 02:02:10 AM
I love it when human-made stuff just makes no sense.

Richter

#2
May 28, 2013, 02:17:29 AM
Nice.  Always been fascinated by places like that.
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#3
May 28, 2013, 02:19:48 AM
It looks like a cool place to get lost in.
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May 28, 2013, 03:01:46 AM
Oh wow. That is awesome!
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#5
May 28, 2013, 03:34:36 AM
A dead-people's version of the Winchester House? Sweet!

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#6
May 28, 2013, 05:00:50 AM
>live in portland
>see this
I MUST GO. MY PEOPLE NEED ME.
blah blah blah the rest of the song

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May 28, 2013, 06:51:13 AM
Quote from: Cainad on May 28, 2013, 03:34:36 AM
A dead-people's version of the Winchester House? Sweet!

Cainad said it before I could.  :lulz:
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May 28, 2013, 06:55:45 AM
Wow, that is neat.
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#9
May 28, 2013, 07:41:22 AM
It is awesome and labyrinthine in a way nothing else I've seen has deserved the word. So many staircases. So many rooms and halls. The big hall pic above is one of countless... I think each level above level 2 has 6 or so of the big halls, all weirdly interconnected with small passages and stairs.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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May 28, 2013, 04:14:54 PM
Did you find the fabled electric Jesus?
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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May 28, 2013, 04:35:09 PM
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on May 28, 2013, 04:14:54 PM
Did you find the fabled electric Jesus?

No, and it makes me think that whoever reported the existence of Electric Jesus may have eaten some paper before visiting.

There is a pretty fantastic 10-foot Jesus statue, but it's not psychedelic.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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#12
May 28, 2013, 04:45:36 PM
There's actually a legend of an Electric Jesus in there?
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#13
May 28, 2013, 04:46:06 PM
Maybe someone kicked out the plug, and he just looks like regular Jesus.
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#14
May 28, 2013, 04:50:46 PM
Maybe it's a hobo.  :lol:
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