Abram Hewitt - Legacy

Legacy

• One of Cooper Union's academic buildings was named in his honor. It was demolished and replaced with a New Academic Building in 2007. An historic twenty-foot column in the Hewitt Building designed by Stanford White was transported - appropriately enough - to its former home at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York where it now stands on Abram S. Hewitt's memorial plot.
• A New York City fireboat, Abram S. Hewitt, which served from 1903 until 1958 was named in his honor. The fireboat was eventually scrapped, and its remains may be found at the Witte Marine Scrapyard in Rossville, Staten Island.
• There is a life-sized white marble statue of Hewitt in the Great Hall of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York in Albany, New York.
• The historic village of Hewitt, New Jersey, located within the Township of West Milford, is preserved within Long Pond Ironworks State Park. The village contains the ruins of the iron smelting furnaces operated by Cooper and Hewitt.
• Ringwood Manor in Ringwood, New Jersey, the Hewitt family's summer estate from 1857 to the 1930s, is preserved as the centerpiece of New Jersey's Ringwood State Park.
• Abram Stevens Hewitt School (P.S. 130) in the Bronx, New York was named for him.
• Hewitt Hall of Barnard College at Columbia University is named for him.
• A New Jersey State Forest along the Appalachian Trail was named in his honor.