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Aug 1, 2024 · Water quality and hydrogeology near four wastewater-treatment facilities in Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyoming, September 1988 through September 1997 USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4117 (Kenneth J. Hedmark and H.W. Young, 1999) Water Quality Summary for the Snake River and Alpine ...
- John D. Rockefeller Reshapes The World
- Father and Son
- Making A Home in The Hudson Valley
- Passing Private Estates to The Public
- Palisades Interstate Park: Preservation Close to Home
- Acadia: The First National Park on The East Coast
- The Rockefellers in Acadia
- Expanding The Function of Parks in The West
- Saving The Redwoods
- Interpreting Mesa Verde
John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839, twenty-five years before Lincoln granted Yosemite to California. When California acquired Yosemite in 1864, the young Rockefellerhad just entered the emerging oil business. By the time Yosemite became a national park in 1890, he was on the cusp of retirement from the Standard Oil Company, the unprecedented corp...
Together, the two Rockefellers marked out carriage trails, designed dams to create ponds and lakes, built stone bridges, and planted trees. They thoroughly enjoyed cultivating and manipulating the landscape around them. This urge to enhance the beauty of the natural environment through careful staging would remain with the younger Rockefeller all h...
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.’s younger brother, William, was his business partner in Standard Oil. William Rockefeller became the first member of the family to acquire property in New York’s Hudson River Valley when he purchased Rockwood Hall in 1886. He transformed the estate into one of the nation’s grandest houses (204 rooms) and most beautiful land...
In 1976, Kykuit was designated a National Historic Landmark. Former New York Governor and US Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, the home’s last occupant, surprised the rest of the family when they discovered upon his death in 1979 that he had bequeathed his one-third interest in the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Thus be...
Near the Rockefeller family homes, just across the Hudson River on the outskirts of New York City, the Palisadescliffs have been celebrated by famous writers and depicted by painters. Stretching thirty miles along the west bank of the lower Hudson River, the Palisades had been quarried for decades to meet New York City’s demand for cobblestones and...
Cadillac Mountainlooms as the tallest of the eighteen mountains on Mount Desert Island, Maine. In fact, it is the highest peak on the Atlantic coastline. European mariners were drawn to the bays and harbors of the island as early as the 1500s. Tourists began to flock to the island in the 1870s and by the turn of the twentieth century, some of the m...
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his family acquired a summer residence at Seal Harborin 1910, a 65-room “cottage” that had been built for a Williams College professor. They added to it, eventually bringing its size to 100 rooms, and used it summer after summer. The family was involved in the park from its earliest stages of planning. JDR, Jr. gave 2,7...
The Rockefeller conservation story extends well beyond the Hudson Valley or even the East Coast. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s interest in the western United Statessparked a similar passion in his sons, and it began with family trips filled with camping and horseback riding. On a trip in 1924, JDR, Jr. took his three oldest sons, John 3rd, Nelson, and...
By 1923, one third of the great redwoods of the California coastal region had been logged, and all but 5,000 of the remaining acres were owned by logging companies. With the US Forest Service predicting total extinction within 100 years, the newly-formed Save the Redwoods League reached out to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. for help. Before he could comp...
At Mesa Verde, JDR, Jr. began to realize the impact of education and interpretation on visitors’ understanding and enjoyment of the park. Touring the site with Park Service archaeologist Jesse Nusbaum, he asked how he might help with the interpretative aspects of Mesa Verde — always preferring to call it interpretation rather than education. He soo...
Sep 26, 2024 · González Davison 2008, p. 88 [List of Art Deco architecture in the United States] Street Building, Chicago (Vitzthum & Burns), 1930 Outer Drive Bridge (FDR Memorial Bridge) Chicago, 1937 Palmolive Building, Chicago (Holabird & Root) [Eddie Albert] 6, 1936, and originated in Studio 3H (now 3K) in the GE Building at Rockefeller Center (then called the RCA Building) in New York City and was ...
Nov 4, 2019 · Franklin D. Roosevelt writes John D. Rockefeller, Jr. about the Jackson Hole National Monument, March 20, 1943. Roosevelt’s action inflamed local sentiment. Wyoming senator Edward Robertson compared the president’s action to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Representative Frank Barrett introduced a bill to abolish the monument (which Roosevelt ...
Dec 4, 2017 · Decades before the struggle over Utah’s national monuments, Wyoming residents went to war over John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s purchase of 33,000 acres around Jackson Hole for a national park.
Ask the Chatbot a Question Ask the Chatbot a Question John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (born January 29, 1874, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died May 11, 1960, Tucson, Arizona) was an American philanthropist, the only son of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and heir to the Rockefeller fortune, who built Rockefeller Center in New York City and was instrumental in the decision to locate the United Nations in that city.
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This two-tiered stone-walled structure overlooking two states commemorates the $5 million contribution John D Rockefeller Jr made to help make the national park a reality. This is also where President Franklin Roosevelt formally dedicated the park on September 2, 1940. Read more.
