In Oakwood Cemetery, Lanett, Alabama, the grave of five year old Nadine Earles (d.1933) is marked by a substantial brick doll’s house (realistically the size of a Wendy house or play house) that could function as a scaled-down replica of a modest, twee bungalow. While there are several across America, I present a cross section of some fascinating and truly curious examples. Sitting like miniature residences between the headstones, these doll’s house graves are a striking example of non-traditional funerary art and changing ideas of grief, innocence, personalisation and burial.
Scattered across American cemeteries are a handful of fascinating, poignant and unusual graves, commemorating the short lives of little girls whose parents wanted to memorialise them a little more unusually in death.
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