Talk:James Monroe Hewlett

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 * → User Swag-NYC (talk), from December 2014 through (so far) May 2017, got a good start on a well-organized introductory section.  I incorporated more material from subsections of semi-organized notes placed below those paragraphs and moved the rest here to the talk page temporarily for further organization, referencing, and inclusion.  – Athaenara  ✉  21:53, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

In 1894 he founded the NY architectural firm of Lord and Hewlett. Among the architects who worked at the firm were Washington Hull (1895–1909), Electus D. Litchfield (1901–08) and Hugh Tallant (who had been a partner with Henry Beaumont Herts since 1897 before joined Lord and Hewlett in 1911). During various times the firm was also known as "Lord, Hewlett and Hull" or (more infrequently) "Lord, Hewlett and Tallant.
 * Lord, Hewlett (& Hull)

"The firm designed many notable buildings including, Brooklyn Hospital (1920), Danbury Connecticut Hospital, St. John's Hospital, Brooklyn, and the Brooklyn Masonic Temple (1907). The firm also designed the famously extravagant 147 room mansion at 980 Fifth Avenue for Montana's Senator and "copper king", William A. Clark. They designed private homes as well; many of them in Somerset County, NJ and on Long Island. A house designed in 1910 for E. S. Harkness in New London, Conn., still stands in Harkness Memorial State Park.

largest commission by The architectural firm of Lord, Hewlett and Hull, and Kenneth Murchison, Jr., Architects. In 1897; the wealthy Montana Senator, William Andrews Clark, commissioned the firm to design and build his mansion on 5th Ave. & 77th St. in Manhattan. The primary design was executed by the firm, however Clark decided their design lacked "sufficient scope and grandeur" so the drawings were sent to Henri Deglane in Paris for further embellishment. (citation here for Acanthus book) plans were completed 1900, work commenced in 1901. The project had an expected completion date of 1904 but legal issues within the firm pushed it back to 1911.
 * The Senator Clark Mansion


 * ( Probably the William A. Clark House. 173.228.123.64 (talk) 18:17, 9 September 2017 (UTC) )

(Copper wealth/Montana Senator.) 5th Ave. & 77th NYC, 147 rooms.

2001, Nov: Article in "Avenue\ Upper Stories", by Andrew Alpern

"The Battle for Butte" by Michael P.Malone; mansion & comic poem 1909. July 15: Article in "Architecture", Vol XX No.1, p.97.

Christmas card from cousin, Sally Abbot, w. Clark mansion picture.

1904: Detail of Tower, Residence Senator Clark, Arch League YB also Caryatides, House Senator Clark

1905 October 4: New York Times p.2, "Clark Architects Dispute, Senator's House May Be Delayed by Legal Differences" Lord Hewlett sue Hull.

1906: Ceiling and wood panel in residence of Senator Clark Arch.

League Yearbook, 1906

1900: Sketch for residence for Sen. Clark, Butte Montana, Lord, Hewlett & Hull: from Arch League Yearbook 1900. Noted above, for Sen.'s son, Charles W. Clark

1925: New York Times 10/08/2, p.26 "Exit 'Fifth Avenue'".

1988: NY to 1930: Architecture and Urbanism between Two World Wars Robert A.M. Stern; Rizzoli, 1988

c.1900 Mausoleum for Sen.Clark and family at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY by Lord, Hewlett and Hull design (pictures taken by CI Newman 2005)

Great Houses of N.Y. 1880-1930, Michael C. Katherns, Acanthus Press 2005, Chapter titled "Senator William Andrews Clark House, 960 Fifth Avenue, Lord, Hewlett & Hull; Henry Deglane, 1908" Says LH&H to design mansion but, "lacking in sufficient scope and Grandeur.... drawings sent to Henri Deglane in Paris for further embellishment."

with R Buckminster Fuller
 * The Stockade Building System

With Paul Helleu, muralist J. Monroe Hewlett and painter Charles Basing of the Hewlett-Basing Studio in Brooklyn, as well as astronomer Dr. Harold Jacoby of Columbia University.
 * The Ceiling at Grand Central Station


 * The Beaux Arts Ball

The Villa Aurelia
 * The American Academy in Rome


 * Architectural Works


 * Murals


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