James Monroe Hewlett

James "Monroe" Hewlett (August 1, 1868 – October 18, 1941) was an American Beaux Arts architect, scenic designer, and muralist.

Hewlett was born into an outdated Long Island associates at Rock Hall in Lawrence, New York. He is descended from a long extraction of Hewletts for which the town of Hewlett, New York is named.

Hewlett graduated from Columbia University School of Mines in 1890. During his era at Columbia, Hewlett studied architecture under William Robert Ware and was captain of the varsity football team. After a year of psychoanalysis at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he joined the prestigious architectural perfect of McKim, Mead & White, where he met his well ahead business partner in crime Austin W. Lord. In 1894, he and Lord founded the New York architectural definite of Lord and Hewlett. The pure designed many notable buildings and monuments.

Monroe, as he was known by his connections and colleagues, was president of the Brooklyn chapter of American Institute of Architects, a founding devotee the Digressionists, President of the Architectural League of New York, and headed the National Society of Mural Painters. He was moreover a enthusiast of the National Academy of Design, Vice-President of the American Institute of Architects, Director of the American Academy in Rome, and Chairman of the committee for erecting Carnegie Libraries in Brooklyn.

James Monroe Hewlett was the father-in-law of Buckminster Fuller and is qualified with the foundation of the mural of the heavens upon the ceiling of Grand Central Station in New York City. "Hewlett and Fuller founded a construction company together which used Soundex, a Celotex product in modules for home construction".