Frank Lloyd Wright burial crypts for sale

HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif., Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Art collectors know you "can't take it with you" when you go, but if one has the money they can go in their own piece of artwork.

Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery, famous for its celebrity patrons including many film stars, is advertising 24 granite sarcophagi designed by the eminent American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The burial crypts climb one of the cemetery's slopes like stair steps to an elevated open-air terrace furnished with benches and a cruciform memorial sculpted in granite. Each crypt is designed for double occupancy.

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join your legacy with that of America's greatest architect," the advertisement reads.

Wright's "Blue Sky Mausoleum" was never completed in his lifetime because the man who commissioned it, industrialist Darwin Martin, lost his fortune in the 1929 stock market price and withdrew from the project. Forest Lawn has built the mausoleum to Wright's exact specifications and priced them from $300,000 to $1.5 million according to their proximity to the memorial.

The price of a mausoleum includes perpetual care of the cemetery and its arboretum, according to the advertisement.