Comments on: Unexplained Disappearance at Warren’s Hofheimer Mauseleum & Grotto

By: Mr. Local History Project

Mr. Local History Project — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:35:36 +0000

In reply to Mike Ryder. Thanks for writing - We will continue to look into the story, but you're correct, Arthur Hofheimer purchased the original properties to make up the 300+ acre estate.

By: Mike Ryder

Mike Ryder — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:34:20 +0000

Every article I’ve read, even from old newspapers from those days mentions Nathan and Arthur Hofheimer… are you sure this is correct?

https://rennamedia.com/hofheimer-the-family-and-its-legacy/

By: Jeanne Nimmo

Jeanne Nimmo — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:26:34 +0000

I remember, as a youngster back in the 1940s, going there – it wasn’t fenced and in front of the partially-filled(with above-ground burials)mausoleum, was a circular ‘driveway’ lined with rhododendron plants. It wasn’t scary, but it was a place we, as kids, wanted to leave ASAP. Some years later, in the early to mid-1960s, a fellow named Bill Linde was rumored to want to purchase the mausoleum, remove it from the Hofheimer property, clean it up, and reassemble it somewhere else, but for some reason, that never happened.

Also, what we now refer to as ‘the grotto’ was thought to be a failed copper mine that filled with water, which was one of the reasons it was said to have failed. Word on the street, back in the 1940s – 1960s, was that there was no viable way to eliminate the water that filled the mine, at the time it was excavated (1920s, perhaps?). Don’t know if much of this is true or not, but it made for some good conversations when we were kids. Thanks for the memories.