Title	Aerial view of Bellarmine Hall
Photographer	Anne Lynch
Date	1988
Description	Bellarmine Hall, the University's administrative center, houses the offices of the President, admission, advancement and development. Formerly known as Hearthstone Hall because of its many fireplaces and chimneys, this forty-four room mansion was built in 1920 by Walter B. Lashar, owner of the American Chain and Cable Company. Original plans suggest that the Lashars were thinking of extending the back terrace of the house (visible to the right of the building in this photograph) into an Italianate pavilion and swimming pool.
Notes	Mr. Walter Lasher and his wife, Mrs. Amelia Lashar made Hearthstone Hall and its 105-acre estate their home until a tax foreclosure forced them to sell the property, which was purchased by the Jesuits to found the Fairfield College Preparatory School in 1942. Hearthstone Hall, renamed Bellarmine Hall in honor of sixteenth century theologian St. Robert Bellarmine, became the first Jesuit faculty residence and remained so until 1981.
Original Format	Yearbook photograph from 1988 Manor, p. 17
Source	Fairfield University Archives and Special Collections
Digital Specifications	These images exist as archived TIFF images and one or more JPEG versions for general use. They were scanned at 600 dpi, 24 bit from the original using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner.
Date Digital	2007
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Identifier	YB001988