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  1. Apr 25, 2024 · Quick Facts. Location: Gatlinburg, TN. Significance: Olmsted Designed Memorial. Olmsted Brothers were hired by the National Park Service in 1938 to create a memorial to John D. Rockefellers wife Laura. With only a budget of $20,000, and working in harsh winter conditions, Olmsted Brothers tasked partner Henry Hubbard with the design.

  2. Laura Spelman Rockefeller died on March 12, 1915, at age 75 of a heart attack, at the family estate Kykuit in Pocantico Hills, New York. Legacy. John D. Rockefeller established the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund.

  3. Jan 13, 2022 · / January 13, 2022. By: James Allen Smith. John D. Rockefeller (JDR) created the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (LSRM) in 1918 as a way to honor and support his late wife’s charitable causes. During its decade-long existence, he donated some $74 million to the Memorial.

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  5. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England.

  6. Laura Spelman Rockefeller died of a heart attack on March 12, 1915, while JDR was in Florida. The funeral held on March 15 in Pocantico Hills was private, attended only by family and a few friends. To honor Laura, JDR established the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1918.

  7. Nov 30, 2023 · 1. The Rockefeller Memorial was built to thank the Rockefeller family. Through the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, the Rockefeller family donated five million dollars to support the purchase of land for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

  8. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial was founded October 18, 1918 by John D. Rockefeller Sr., in memory of his deceased wife, and was terminated as a legal entity on January 3, 1929. The Memorial's mandate was the promotion of the welfare of women and children worldwide.

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