Background
Hewitt, Edwin Hawley was born on March 26, 1874 in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States. Son of Charles Nathaniel and Helen (Robinson) Hewitt.
Hewitt, Edwin Hawley was born on March 26, 1874 in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States. Son of Charles Nathaniel and Helen (Robinson) Hewitt.
He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied during the winter of 1896-1897. In October, 1904, he returned to the United States, but he had completed his work at the Ecole.
In 1906, he designed the Edwin H. Hewitt House in the Stevens Square neighborhood of Minneapolis, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. After a partial course at Hobart College he entered the University of Minnesota in the sophomore class in 1893, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1896. The next three years were spent in the offices of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Wheelwright & Haven, and others
Arriving in Minneapolis, he was almost immediately offered a commission and at once started in on private practice, not having an opportunity to return to Paris for over eight years.
Hewitt was instrumental in the work which culminated in the completion of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He was president of the Minnesota State Art Society.
The practice of Hewitt and Brown continued until Brown"s death in 1930. Hewitt resumed private practice, but as business declined during the Great Depression, he closed his office and became the chief architectural supervisor for the Federal Housing Administration for the Minneapolis area.
He died on August 11, 1939.
Metropolitan Bank Building, 2nd Avenue. South. and 6th Saint
McKnight Building, 5th Saint and 2nd Avenue. South.
Charles Sexton Residence, 2321 Blaisdell Avenue.
Architects and Engineers Building (1922) (NRHP)
Qwest Building (1932)
Eugene J. Carpenter House (1906) (NRHP)
George Christian House, now the Hennepin History Museum, in the Washburn-Fair Oaks Mansion District
Julia Morrison Memorial Building (Minneapolis School of Art), 25th Saint & Stevens Avenue.
South. (1916) (now part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
Saint Mark"s Episcopal Cathedral (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (1908-1911)
University Baptist Church, 1219 University Avenue.
Southeast
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company Home Office, Oak Grove and 15th. Saint (now 430 Oak Grove Apartments)
Dunwoody College of Technology, Wayzata Boulevard and Lyndale Avenue.
The Blake School, 110 South. Blake Road, Hopkins, Minnesota
Northrop School, 511 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis
Citizens Aid Building, 404 South. 8th Saint (formerly the George H Christian Home)
Charles South. Pillsbury residence, 100 East. 22nd Saint
Walter G. Hudson residence, 2400 Pillsbury Avenue.
South.
Robert Webb residence, 1920 Pillsbury Avenue. South.
J. L. Record residence, 343 Oak Grove.
He became a member of the American Institute of Architects in 1913, and was president of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Married Caroline Christian, April. Children: Charles Christian, Helen (deceased), also (adopted) John Edwin, Mary, Elizabeth.