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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 woman in the United States.
Marjorie Merriweather Post bought Hillwood in 1955 and soon decided her home would be a museum that would inspire and educate the public. Her northwest Washington, D.C. estate endowed the country with the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia, a distinguished eighteenth-century French decorative art collection ...
Marjorie Merriweather Post was an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and socialite, who was also known as one of the richest women of 20th-century America. She had inherited ‘Postum Cereal Company’ from her father, business tycoon C.W. Post.
Nov 14, 2023 · Today, Marjorie Merriweather Post is best remembered as the builder of Mar-a-Lago. That storied estate, the current home of former President Donald Trump, is only one symbol of Marjorie’s fairy-tale life.
Mar 31, 2021 · Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Return to the United States Post returned from her term in Brussels to Washington, D.C. in 1939. Her time in Moscow instilled in her a deep appreciation for pre-revolutionary Russian art.
…American cereal heiress and philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post. During Trump’s presidency (2017–21) it served as his presidential retreat and was commonly referred to as the “Winter White House.”
Apr 8, 2021 · Marjorie Merriweather Post, c. 1945. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Archives. Post inherited the Postum Cereal Company in 1914 following the death of her entrepreneur father, C.W. Post, becoming one of the wealthiest women in the United States at the age of 27.
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