If you’ve ever eaten at Ria’s Bluebird, then you’ve experienced the legacy of Chef Ria Pell. After her win on Chopped, she became known about town and was well-loved in the community as shown by her headstone at Westview Cemetery and obituary.
Louise and Hugh Inman were born to Hugh and Josephine Inman. The Inman family was a prominent Atlanta family. Being a family of means, they were able to employ someone to create death masks of their children.
Death masks are masks made of wax or plaster created after death as a permanent portrait of the deceased. Death masks appear different than other sculptural elements on cemetery markers because the features appear unique from mass-produced markers.
The Out in the Rain Fountain sits not too far from the Oakland Cemetery Visitor’s Center. It was founded by J. L. Mott Iron Works in 1913 and copied from a Galloway & Graff sculpture originally made in 1876.
It’s listed on the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture database.
From the Utoy Cemetery Association website, Atlanta’s historic Utoy Cemetery is a fenced three and a half acre suburban cemetery located at 1465 Cahaba Drive SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30311, behind the old Utoy Primitive Baptist Church (now the Temple of Christ Pentecostal Church), 1911 Venetian Drive SW, Atlanta, Georgia 30311. The cemetery was originally part of the Utoy Primitive Baptist Church, but in 1984 was deeded to the Utoy Cemetery Association, Inc.
Utoy Primitive Baptist Church, apparently the oldest Baptist Church in present Fulton County, was constituted August 15, 1824, in a log house just west of the present church, which is now located at the corner of Venetian Drive (originally Utoy Road) and Cahaba Drive, in Southwest Atlanta. The church was apparently moved to its present location in the summer of 1828. Today, the Utoy Church building itself is owned by the Temple of Christ Pentecostal Church, Inc., an organization that has an active African-American congregation of approximately 100 members.
It was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Neel Reid designed this 1922 Georgian-inspired home for Henry B. Tompkins and his wife. The home was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The home was painted this bright orange in 2010.
