Louise Blanchard Bethune in Buffalo, NY
Inducted in the National Women's Hall of Fame, March 9, 2006
Louise Blanchard Bethune in Buffalo,
NY
Inducted in the National
Women's Hall of Fame, March 9, 2006
"At the end of the 1880s, thirty-three-year-old Bethune had accomplished more than most architects could hope to accomplish in their careers. She was an AIA Fellow, vice-president of the Buffalo Society of Architects, and second vice-president of the WAA. She had designed more than seventy-five buildings that can be documented (half of her life's work), including seven pace-setting public schools, four police stations, the most modern lithography factory in the country, three other factories, several stores, an armory, a major addition to a hospital, and dozens of homes from wood-frame middle-class houses to Dunkirk's centerpiece mansion. She was also the mother of a six-year-old." - Johanna Hays
On Buffalo Architecture and History site:Louise Bethune, "Women and Architecture" Text of a speech delivered in 1891
Austin Fox, Louise Blanchard Bethune
Andrea Barbasch, Louise Blanchard BethuneMemorial plaque in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Hotel Lafayette
The Frontier TheaterPhoto - 35 Richmond Avenue
Photo - 39 Richmond Avenue
Photo of actress Margo Davis in her role as Louise Blanchard Bethune in a 2002 Forest Lawn Cemetery guided tour
On other sites:
Johanna Hays, Louise Blanchard Bethune: Architect Extraordinaire and First American Woman Architect, Practiced in Buffalo, New York Doctoral thesis.
Cynthia Van Ness. Buffalo builds on history of its architectural heritage Essay
Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Research Library
BECHS Research Library: Buffalo Architectural Index
The Louise Bethune Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
