[1] He was considered the academic heir of Herbert Langford Warren, a teacher at Harvard, and through him, of the art historians Charles Eliot Norton and John Ruskin.

[2] He served in the 42nd Infantry Division of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and was wounded in the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918.

[3] Conant's lifework was the study of the Cluny Abbey in France, which he excavated beginning in 1927, funded by his first of five separate Guggenheim Fellowships.

[7] In 1916, Denman Ross painted a portrait of Conant, now in the Harvard Art Museums.

[8] In 1940, a group of students, who studied under Conant, formed the Society of Architectural Historians under his influence.