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Enid Haupt (left) with Lady Bird Johnson at the Smithsonian Institution, 1988. Enid Haupt (née Annenberg, formerly Bensinger; May 13, 1906 – October 25, 2005) was an American publisher and philanthropist whose gifts supported horticulture, the arts, architectural and historic preservation, and cancer research.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is a greenhouse at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx, New York, United States. [1] The conservatory was designed by Lord & Burnham Co. in the Italian Renaissance style.
The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a 4.2 acre public garden in the Smithsonian complex, adjacent to the Smithsonian Institution Building (the "Castle") on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It was designed to be a modern representation of American Victorian gardens as they appeared in the mid to late 19th century.
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre (100 ha) site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of ...
The Enid A. Haupt Glass Garden opened in 1959 as part of the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Center. [1] [2] [3] It provided horticultural therapy for patients, but was also open to the public. It was contained in a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m 2) greenhouse at 34th Street and First Avenue in New York City.
Ground view of the Parterre of the Enid A. Haupt Garden. The Smithsonian Gardens manage a number of gardens and landscapes, most of which are near the Smithsonian's museums on the National Mall. [14] These include: Common Ground: Our American Garden, flanking the National Museum of American History’s south entrance facing the National Mall [15]
She was one of eight children (seven girls and a boy) born to the couple; two of the other children were Enid A. Haupt and Walter H. Annenberg. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She contributed $5 million of the $10 million cost of the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, which opened in 1997, and which is the most comprehensive earth sciences ...
In addition to Lyndhurst, the company built the Enid Haupt Conservatory at what is now the New York Botanical Garden, another NHL, and the conservatory at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, listed on the Register today as a contributing property to the Cazenovia Park-South Park System. By 1903 the company's catalog boasted that the ...