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 Blanchard Bethune: Every Woman Her Own Architect" Exhibition
Louise Bethune, "Women and Architecture" Text of a speech delivered in 1891
Austin Fox, Louise Blanchard Bethune
Andrea Barbasch, Louise Blanchard BethuneSarah Allaback, The First American Women Architects: Louise Blachard Bethune
Trail Blazing Women of WNY: Louise Blanchard Bethune
Bio Reprinted from the 2010 National Register nomination for the Hotel Lafayette
Memorial plaque in Forest Lawn Cemetery
Photo of actress Margo Davis in her role as Louise Blanchard Bethune in a 2002 Forest Lawn Cemetery guided tour
Jonathan L. White, “Allentown Then and Now” Includes Bethune's Elmwood Armory, Drill shed, Elmwood Music Hall
Photo - 35 Richmond Avenue
Photo - 39 Richmond Avenue
See also: Kelly Hayes Mcalonie, Louise Blanchard Bethune (online February 2023)
