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Airmount Grave Shelter

Thomasville, Italy

Airmount Grave Shelter

The Airmount Grave Shelter, also known as the Hope Family Grave Shelter, is a brick grave shelter, or grave house, located in the Airmount Cemetery near Thomasville, Alabama, United States. It is unusual in that it protects six graves instead of the more common one grave. The brick structure was bui

lt in 1853 by John Hope. It is built in a vernacular Greek Revival style with a gabled roof. The interior features a wooden vaulted ceiling. The shelter was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 2000, as a part of the Clarke County Multiple Property Submission.

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