Integrating the Classroom with the Community: Collaboration with the Hewitt Mansion in Buffalo, New York

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to the graduate students of the Patricia H. and Richard E. Garman Art Conservation Department. Thanks also to the owners of the Inn Buffalo, Joseph and Ellen Lettieri, for their continuing support in this collaboration.

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Notes

1 ‘Lansing and Beierl Archts’ are listed on the original blueprints entitled Basement Plan House for Mr H.H. Hewitt, in the private collection of Joseph and Ellen Lettieri, the current owners of the property.

2 “The H.H. Hewitt House 2015.” Accessed 17 April 2020. http://preservationstudios.com/portfolio/innbuffalo-the-hewitt-house/.

3 Date based on his age: he was reported in 1922 to have died at the age of 67, see “Herbert H. Hewitt Dies”. The New York Herald, 20 December 1922, 11. Records from Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo, NY) show a birth date of 19 January 1855.

4 In Biographical Directory of the State of New York 1900. New York: Park Row Building.

5 “Death Summons H.H. Hewitt: Prominent Business Man Succumbs to Long Illness.” The Buffalo Times 19 December 1922.

6 “Mrs Hewitt Wills $150,000 in Gifts”. Buffalo News 27 December 1932.