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The John W. Blodgett Estate, also known as Brookby, is an historic landmark at 250 Plymouth Rd, SE, East Grand Rapids, Michigan. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 [ 1 ] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977. [ 2 ]
John Wood Blodgett Sr. (1860-1951) was a lumberman, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was born on a frontier farm where the present village of Hersey, Michigan , now sits, to logging and sawmill operation owner Delos A. and Jane Wood Blodgett.
Blodgett also supported the local chapter of the Negro Business League, as well as Edward Waters College and his church. [1] Blodgett married Sallie A. Barnes of Bamberg, South Carolina in 1894. [2] Blodgett was the namesake of Blodgett Homes, a large 1942-built public housing project in Jacksonville, and also of its replacement, Blodgett ...
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Minnie Cumnock Blodgett (1862–1931) graduated from Vassar College in 1884, later becoming a trustee (1917–1931). She is the mother of Katharine Blodgett Hadley (VC '20), who was also a Vassar trustee (1942–1954), and was chairman of the Board (1945–1952).
Jean Blodgett was an American-born curator and prolific writer devoted to Inuit art who spent her career in Canada. She was known as a force in her field, [ 1 ] the curator who began the serious art historical study of Inuit art in the early 1970s, at a time when few worked on the subject. [ 2 ]
The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.