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Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is a decorative arts museum in Washington, D.C., United States. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including two Fabergé eggs.
3; including Eleanor Post Hutton and Dina Merrill. Father. C. W. Post. Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Marjorie Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest ...
June 28, 1990 [1] Tregaron Estate, formerly known as The Causeway, is a country house and estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C. The estate, built in 1912, was designed by architect Charles Adams Platt and landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. The original owners, Alice and James Parmelee, lived at ...
Merriweather Post Pavilion is an outdoor concert venue located within Symphony Woods, a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) lot of preserved land in the heart of the planned community of Columbia, Maryland. In 2010, Merriweather was named the second best amphitheater in the United States by Billboard magazine. [2] The venue was also ranked as the fourth best ...
More: Memory Lane: Marjorie Merriweather Post loved to dance Herpel's family business would serve Mar-a-Lago for years to come, from its time as a federal government asset in the 1970s, to its ...
Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1887-1973 Known as: The staggeringly rich Midwestern cereal heiress who built the obscenely luxurious Mar-a-Lago and saw no irony at all in donning a gingham dress and ...
Lake Merriweather was named for Marjorie Merriweather Post, an ardent supporter of Scouting in the Washington, DC area. [4]: 51 The individual camps bear the names of other significant individuals or corporations who supported National Capital Scouting as well.
Mar-a-Lago was built for the businesswoman and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post between 1924 and 1927, during the Florida land boom. At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, [5] hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House.