Charles Burchfield, Journals, April 4, 1964

The large cemetery adjacent to ‘Our Lady of Victory’ Basilica, usually so ugly and depressing, buff of a deep enchanting mystery—the seemingly innumerable grotesque monuments, darkened by years of smoke and grime from the steel mills, seemed not ugly but full of mysterious hauntedness. The same was true of the mean streets of houses and small stores—Even in the very heart of this steel town with its rows of identical sooty houses and steel mills with their tall black chimneys, [it] seemed only full of glamour and mystery—the tall chimneys with the lace-like ladders on one side were particularly beautiful—

Charles Burchfield, April 4, 1964