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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, commonly known as the Mellon Foundation, is a New York City-based private foundation with wealth accumulated by Andrew Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [2] It is the product of the 1969 merger of the Avalon Foundation and the Old Dominion Foundation.
The Richard King Mellon Foundation was created by Richard King Mellon in 1947. It primarily works in Pennsylvania to preserve and restore the area's natural environment. [5] In 2001 the foundation donated two tracts of land, totaling 61,633 acres, to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) for the Maurepas Swamp WMA.
The museums veterinary and pet care exhibit was created in part with support from VCA veterinary clinics. In 2005, the museum was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
Founded in 1974 as the 'Capital Children's Museum'. National Museum of Play: Rochester: New York: Second largest children's museum in the country The New Children's Museum: San Diego: California: Northeast Louisiana Children's Museum: Monroe: Louisiana: Opened on August 15, 1998; planning to move to a different location at Swayze Natatorium at ...
Carnegie Grants for Library Buildings, 1890–1917. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. OCLC 2603611. Note: The above references, while all authoritative, are not entirely mutually consistent. Some details of this list may have been drawn from one of the references without support from the others. Reader discretion is advised.
Carnegie Museum of Art's Sarah Scaife Gallery annex. Designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes and Associates. [10] When Andrew Carnegie envisioned a museum collection consisting of the "Old Masters of tomorrow," the Carnegie Museum of Art arguably became the first museum of modern art in the United States. The museum was founded as the Department of ...
Ailsa Mellon-Bruce – co-founder of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Alice and Sheryl Cooper – co-founded Alice Cooper's Solid Rock Foundation, a non-profit supporting teenagers. Alisher Usmanov – business-magnate, philanthropist, FIE President, founder of Art, science and sport foundation. Alagappa Chettiar – notable for work on Indian ...
Carnegie Coffee Company (Carnegie U.S. Post Office) 1916 Oscar Winderoth: 132 East Main Street Carnegie 2014 Carnegie Free Library of McKeesport: 1902 William J. East 1507 Library Street McKeesport 1979 Carnegie Mellon University, the original campus (Carnegie Institute of Technology; Carnegie Technical Schools) 1905–32