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This 1928 photograph shows the mausoleum and administrative buildings of the East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery at 43rd Street and Folsom Boulevard. The $250,000 mausoleum, constructed in 1925 and 1926, was built by Fresno-based Robert Talmer, a noted mausoleum contractor. It was designed to have a minimum of 400 crypts, and to be expanded over time. A quarter of the money raised for the structure was set aside as part of a perpetual improvement fund. Every worker hired in the construction of the mausoleum was given permanent employment by East Lawn. The 40-acre, 2,000-tree cemetery was founded in 1904 by Louis Breuner. Prior to being East Lawn, the parcel was a farm known as “Twin Oaks.”
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