Portland Mausoleum

With eight stories and nearly seven miles of corridors, Wilhelm Memorial Portland Mausoleum on the east bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, is one of the largest mausoleum on the West Coast.

Built in 1901, it was expanded in 1919 and again in 1923 and was the first steam-heated mausoleum in America.

Inside are close to 100,000 internments and a maze of corridors and stairs.

The three-story Cherub Fountain plays a pivotal role in both the Mausoleum Tapes episodes (where we’re playing the Ten Candles RPG) and the Return to the Mausoleum episodes that close out Season Six:

And then, of course, there is the Rae Room, where one of the wealthiest men in Portland’s history, George Rae, has a tomb along with his second wife, Elizabeth.

What the Wilhelm Memorial Portland Mausoleum doesn’t have much of, however, are stories of the supernatural or the paranormal. So, yeah, we had to fix that.

Behind-the-Scenes: All the pictures on this page were taken by C. Patrick on one of his several visits to the Mausoleum, which is only open to the public on Memorial Day weekend. Traditionally, the Rae Room is only open to the public for 90 minutes on Memorial Day itself.

If you’d like to learn more about the Portland Mausoleum, there’s a Wikipedia page, as well as a good article about George Rae and the scandal he was involved with vis-a-vis his wives. There’s also the Mausoleum’s own website.