Weiskittel-Roehle Burial Vault is a historic burial vault

Burial vault (tomb)

A burial vault is a structural underground tomb.It is a stone or brick-lined underground space or 'burial' chamber for the interment of a dead body or bodies. They were originally and are still often vaulted and usually have stone slab entrances...

 located in Section P, Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery

Loudon Park National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005, had 7,138 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by the Baltimore National Cemetery.- History :Loudon Park...

, Baltimore, Maryland. It is a rectangular structure made of cast iron

Cast iron

Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...

 built into the side of a hill, constructed to look like ashlar

Ashlar

Ashlar is prepared stone work of any type of stone. Masonry using such stones laid in parallel courses is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. Ashlar blocks are rectangular cuboid blocks that are masonry sculpted to have square edges...

 masonry and painted gray. It was made as the tomb of Anton W. Weiskittel who died in 1884, a Baltimore iron founder.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1976.

External links

• Weiskittel-Roehle Burial Vault, Baltimore City, including photo from 1996, at Maryland Historical Trust