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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 ...
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Sep 17, 2000 · Marjorie Spurrier speaks with sweet matter-of-factness about her husband's time as a tennis player. ... as all the old clocks in the house ticked. The Spurriers own a lot of old clocks. His wife ...
Such was the curiosity offered by her social circles when Marjorie Merriweather Post returned home from the Soviet Union with firsthand accounts and an intriguing collection of icons, chalices, porcelain, and silver drinking vessels from the virtually unknown land, encouraging her to expand her collection and share it with the public.
Oct 20, 2018 · Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens is in the outskirts of Washington D.C. It is absolutely gorgeous and filled with treasures. Hillwood was one of three homes owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post, the sole heiress of the Postum Cereal Company/General Foods fortune.
Year: 1971. Achievement: Dr. Marjorie Sirridge was one of the founding faculty members of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Inspiration. While in high school I realized that the study of science was not only easy for me, but that I enjoyed it. Most of the women in my family had been teachers and I felt that I had the ...
Marjorie Merriweather Post was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter and only child of C. W. Post and Ella Letitia Merriweather. At age 27, following her father's death in 1914, she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company, founded in 1895. She inherited a US$ 20 million fortune.
