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Barney Family Mausoleum — Sphinx Tomb

Springfield, MA

A bronze sphinx guards the entrance to the Barney family mausoleum in Forest Park. The Egyptian-style tomb was commissioned by wealthy industrialist Everett Hosmer Barney and looks dramatically out of place amid the surrounding New England landscape.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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