Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site

Once every year, the sepulcher is opened to general society and a wreath laid for the most part in October amid the get-together end of the week as a major aspect of the yearly Founders' Day. activities. The Stanford Mausoleum, situated in the northwest of the Stanford University grounds in the Stanford University Arboretum, holds the remaining parts of the college's namesake Leland Stanford, Jr. what's more, his folks Leland and Jane Stanford.

The unique expectation of the Stanfords was to fabricate a family manor here. They had just gotten the extent that planting a prickly plant still present before the passing of their exclusive child. They changed their plans to building a college in his name. Adjacent is a remembrance the Angel of Grief to Jane Stanford's sibling, Henry Clay Lathrop. This dedication is a 1908 duplicate of a 1901 duplicate of a 1894 statue by the unmistakable American stone carver William Wetmore Story.