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Dodge Brothers Mausoleum

Located in Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, among the notables buried here are John & Horace Dodge.

Built in the Egyptian Revival Style, two stone Spyhnxes stand guard over the front door.

Both Brothers who were inseparable in life both died in 1920. They comissioned the Lloyd Brothers of Toledo, OH to build their mausoleum in 1913.

*With addional information from the late A. Dale Northup’s book Detroit’s Woodlawn Cemetery.*

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