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J.A. & Kathryn Albertson Foundation Kathryn McCurry Albertson (August 27, 1908 – April 30, 2002) was the wife of the founder of the Albertsons chain of grocery stores and a notable philanthropist .
Albertson donated over $72 million to the College of Idaho. For their gratitude, the college changed its name to the Albertson College of Idaho from 1991 to 2007. [8] [9] Perhaps the most obvious gift to the citizens of Idaho is the 41-acre (17 ha) Kathryn Albertson Park in Boise, [10] [11] [12] with its winding walkways, wildflowers, trees and ...
The land was part of the St. Louis Common. When the Common was divided in 1836, an ordinance preserved the 29.95 acres for public use as a park. It was separated from the Commons in 1844 but it wasn't until 1851 that it was formally dedicated as Lafayette Square, the name that became associated with the neighborhood that grew up around the park.
In 1991, the college's board of trustees unanimously voted to change its name to Albertson College of Idaho to honor alumnus and long-time donor Joe Albertson (1906–1993) and his wife Kathryn (1908–2002). [5]
St. Louis (/ s eɪ n t ˈ l uː ɪ s, s ən t-/ saynt LOO-iss, sənt-) [11] is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, [8] while its metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated ...
Benton Park in the neighborhood of the same name, May 2018. Benton Park is a neighborhood in southside St. Louis, Missouri, just west of the Soulard neighborhood. The official boundaries of the area are Gravois Avenue on the north, Cherokee Street on the south, I-55 on the east, and Jefferson Avenue on the west. [2]
It is called "Dutch" from Deutsch, i.e., "German", as it was the southern center of German-American settlement in St. Louis in the early 19th century. [2] It was the original site of Concordia Seminary (before it relocated to Clayton, Missouri ), Concordia Publishing House , Lutheran Hospital, and other German community organizations.
The neighborhood, now known as Old North St. Louis, was established as the independent village of North St. Louis in 1816 and was annexed by the City of St. Louis in 1841. . After being a densely populated neighborhood, Old North St. Louis gradually lost its population over decades and had its community housing stocks deteriorat