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Community Mausoleum Mountain View Cemetery Oakland, California The 57,000 square foot community mausoleum at Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery is a 1930’s abstraction of Classical architecture. The colossal scale of the antifixes that cap the colonnades is truly remarkable. The influence of the Art Deco style can be seen in the geometry of the capitals, the severe columns with the lack of entasis (taper) and the smooth walls setting off the spare ornamentation. This combination of classical influence on otherwise modern lines is typical of transitional architecture seen in public buildings of the 1930’s. Mountain View, which was opened in 1865, was one of the last of the true Garden Cemeteries. Tulip time at Mountain View is an excellent example of the belief of the cemetery’s designer Frederick Law Olmsted that cemeteries should resemble gardens rather than parks. The 21,000 Darwin-hybrid tulips bloom in 18 massed beds in the cemetery’s gardens.