Veterans from every war in our nation's history are interred in the Fairview cemetery. In 1902, a local man donated this small chapel so that relatives could remember them properly. Barely larger than a storage shed, the tiny building has an elongated Gothic-arched transom above the double doors that are outlined by rough-hewn stones. The Gothic arch is echoed in the muntins of the double-sash
Lu Donnelly et al., "Fairview Cemetery Chapel", [Fairview, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-ER43.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 505-506.
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