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{{Short description|American businesswoman (1887–1973)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Marjorie Merriweather Post
| image = Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton Davies NYWTS.jpg
| caption = Post in 1942
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|03|15}}
| birth_place = [[Springfield, Illinois]], U.S
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|09|12|1887|03|15}}
| death_place = [[Washington, DC]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[Mount Vernon Seminary and College]] ([[Washington, DC]])
| occupation = {{hlist|Businesswoman|socialite|philanthropist}}
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Edward Bennett Close|1905|1919|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Edward Francis Hutton]]|1920|1935|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|[[Joseph E. Davies]]|1935|1955|reason=div}}
* {{marriage|Herbert A. May|1958|1964|reason=div}}
}}
| children = 3; including [[Eleanor Post Hutton]] and [[Dina Merrill]]
| father = [[C. W. Post]]
}}
'''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|General Foods Corporation]]. For much of Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barrett |first=William P. |title=Lawsuits Nibble Away At Famous Fortune |url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1019/forbes-400-rich-list-09-marjorie-post-estates-old-money.html |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Byrne |first=Hannah |date=2021-01-14 |title=Toasting to the Museum that Never Was |url=https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/toasting-museum-never-was |access-date=2023-09-17 |website=Smithsonian Institution Archives |language=en}}</ref>
Post used much of her fortune to collect art, particularly [[Russian Empire|Imperial]]-era [[Russian art]], much of which is now on display at [[Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens|Hillwood]], the museum which was her estate in [[Washington, D.C.]] She is also known for her mansion, [[Mar-a-Lago]], in [[Palm Beach, Florida]].
==Early
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 [[Post Cereals|Postum Cereal Company]], founded in 1895. She inherited a $20 million fortune.<ref name="Robertson">{{cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Nan|title=A Lot of Grape Nuts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/02/archives/a-lot-of-grape-nuts-post.html|access-date=December 9, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 2, 1978}}</ref>
Post lived in Battle Creek, Michigan from ages 3 to 14. She then moved to Washington, D.C. to attend the [[Mount Vernon Seminary and College]] (now the [[George Washington University]]'s Mount Vernon Campus). She maintained a close lifelong relationship with her alma mater and served as its first alumna trustee. Today, a collection of her correspondence with Mount Vernon administrators is maintained by GWU's Special Collections Research Center.<ref>[https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/519 Guide to the Mount Vernon Seminary and College Collection of Biographical Materials and Correspondence with Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1901-1999], Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University</ref> Post's complete collection of personal papers, as well as those of her father, are held by the [[University of Michigan]]'s [[Bentley Historical Library]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85519| title=Post Family Papers: 1882-1973| publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan| access-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref>
== General Foods Corporation ==
Post became the owner of the [[Post Consumer Brands|Postum Cereal Company]] in 1914, after the death of her father, and was a director of the company until 1958. She, along with her second husband, [[Edward Francis Hutton|E.F. Hutton]], began growing the business by acquiring other American food companies such as [[Hellmann's and Best Foods|Hellmann's]] Mayonnaise, [[Jell-O]], [[Baker's Chocolate]], [[Maxwell House]], and many more. In 1929, Postum Cereal Company was renamed [[General Foods|General Foods Corporation]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.postconsumerbrands.com/news/marjorie-post/ | title=Marjorie Merriweather Post: The Founder of Post Consumer Brands }}</ref><ref name="NY times Htton obit">{{cite web |title=EDWARD F. HUTTON, FINANCIER, 86, DIES; Founder of Brokerage Firm Here Was Chairman of General Foods Until '35 'GREASE MONKEY' AT 15 Established the Freedoms Foundation Wrote a Newspaper Column |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=1962-07-12 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/07/12/82054825.html?pageNumber=29 |access-date=2024-12-28}}</ref><ref name="Pak 2020">{{cite journal |last=Pak |first=Susie J. |title=Where Are They Now?: E.F. Hutton & Co. |journal=Financial History |issue=133 |date=Spring 2020 |via=Museum of American Finance |url=https://www.moaf.org/publications-collections/financial-history-magazine/133 |issn=1520-4723 |oclc=891543844 |page=36}}</ref>
While taking a voyage on her yacht, the [[RV Vema|''Hussar'']], she came across the innovation of [[Clarence Birdseye]] in [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]] by dining onboard on a scrumptious whole turkey that was previously frozen. Birdseye had invented a technology to preserve fresh food by the [[flash freezing]] process that prevented water crystals from forming and diluting the product. Post foresaw the future advantages of Birdseye's invention, bought the company, made him vice president and pioneered the frozen fresh food market for wholesalers and retailers by nationally providing the first commercial freezers.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/13/archives/mrs-marjorie-merriweather-post-is-dead-at-86-a-rich-working-woman.html|title=Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Is Dead at 86|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 13, 1973}}</ref>
== Philanthropy ==
Post funded a U.S. Army hospital in [[France]] during [[World War I]], and, decades later, the French government awarded her the [[Legion of Honour]], in the degree of Commander. Starting in 1929 and throughout the Great Depression, she financed and personally supervised a [[Salvation Army]] feeding station in New York. She also donated the cost of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] headquarters in Washington. Years later in 1971, she was among the first three recipients of the [[Silver Beaver Award#History|Silver Fawn Award]], presented by the [[Boy Scouts of America]]. The 425-acre (172 ha) Lake Merriweather at [[Goshen Scout Reservation]] in Goshen, Virginia, was named in her honor. Camp Post is named for her.
In 1966, at [[LIU Post|Long Island University's C.W. Post College, located on her former Long Island estate]], she became honorary housemother of Zeta Beta Tau's Gamma Delta chapter, often hosting the fraternity brothers for brunches. Post served as the honorary house mother of the college's first local fraternity, Sigma Beta Epsilon, which, in 1969, became the New York Beta chapter of [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]]. Since Post had borne only girls, she referred to the fraternity of sons-in-law as her "boys", while they called her "Mother Marjorie". Post was honored by [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]] fraternity as a "Golden Daughter of Minerva".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Landmark of the Week: The Mansion {{!}} The Pioneer|url=http://liupostpioneer.com/landmark-of-the-week-the-mansion-2/|last=postpioneer|language=en-US|access-date=May 1, 2020}}</ref>
She donated $100,000 to the National Cultural Center in Washington that would later become the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]]. In 1955, she contributed $100,000 to the [[National Symphony Orchestra|National Symphony]] for free concerts that led to the beginning of the Music for Young America Concerts, which she financed annually.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Merriweather Post Pavilion]], an outdoor concert venue in [[Columbia, Maryland]], is named for her.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-best-amphitheaters-in-america-47179|title=The Best Amphitheaters in America: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Maryland|newspaper=Rolling Stone|access-date=January 17, 2015}}</ref>
==Lifestyle==
[[Image:MaralagoLoC.jpg|thumb|alt=Mar-a-Lago, Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate on Palm Beach Island|[[Mar-a-Lago]], Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate on Palm Beach Island]]
[[Image:Mar-A-Lago1.jpg|thumb|alt=Entrance to Mar-a-Lago owner's suite, April 1967|Entrance to Mar-a-Lago owner's suite, April 1967]]
[[File:Topridge Boathouse.jpg|thumb|right|Boathouse at [[Camp Topridge]]]]
[[File:Sea Cloud I.jpg|thumb|Yacht ''[[Sea Cloud]]'']]
=== Jewelry ===
Some of Post's jewelry, bequeathed to the [[Smithsonian Institution]] in Washington, D.C., is displayed in the [[Harry Winston]] exhibit. Pieces in the collection include the [[Napoleon Diamond Necklace]] and the [[Marie Louise Diadem]], a 275-[[Carat (mass)|ct]] (55 g) diamond-and-turquoise necklace and tiara set that [[Napoleon|Napoleon I]] gave to his second wife, [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma|Empress Marie Louise]]; the [[Marie Antoinette Diamond Earrings]], a pair of diamond earrings set with pear shapes, weighing 14 ct (2.8 g) and 20 ct (4 g), once belonging to [[Marie Antoinette]]; the Blue Heart Diamond, a 30.82-ct (6.164 g) heart-shaped blue diamond ring; and an emerald-and-diamond necklace and ring, once belonging to Habsburg aristocrat and one time emperor of Mexico, [[Maximilian I of Mexico|Maximilian]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://geogallery.si.edu/index.php/10002700/maximillian-emerald|title=Maximillian Emerald| website=Smithsonian: National Museum of Natural History| access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://geogallery.si.edu/index.php/10002692/blue-heart-diamond| title=Blue Heart Diamond| website=Smithsonian: National Museum of Natural History| access-date=July 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecourtjeweller.com/2022/03/marjorie-merriweather-posts-royal-jewels.html|title=Marjorie Merriweather Post's Royal Jewels|date=March 15, 2022|website=The Court Jeweller}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.collectissim.com/en/marjorie-merriweather-post-most-famous-jewels/|title=Marjorie Merriweather Post’s most famous jewels|first=Guilhem|last=Merolle|date=December 15, 2024|website=www.collectissim.com}}</ref>
===Russian art collection===
According to the [[Hermitage Museum]] Foundation, Post was a [[Russophilia|Russophile]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hermitagemuseumfoundation.org/files/8613/5767/3050/Newsletter-January-2010.pdf|title=Hermitage Museum Foundation Newsletter|work=Hermitage Museum Foundation website|date=January 2010|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217024338/http://www.hermitagemuseumfoundation.org/files/8613/5767/3050/Newsletter-January-2010.pdf}}</ref><ref>Dworkin, Scott (February 5, 2017). [http://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/828308379667947523 Trump Hosted Event for Putin Sr Advisor at Mar a Lago in 2010]. Dworkin website. [https://twitter.com/funder/status/828308379667947523 Archived] from the original November 26, 2020. [https://archive.today/20201217022702/https://twitter.com/funder/status/828308379667947523 Archived] from the original December 17, 2020.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gutierrez|first=Rual|url=https://medium.com/@themexican/trumps-russian-connections-a-handy-timeline-d5a820ee1ac5|title=Trump's Russian Connections, A Handy Timeline|work=[[The Medium]]|access-date=December 18, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301224955/https://medium.com/@themexican/trumps-russian-connections-a-handy-timeline-d5a820ee1ac5}}</ref> During the 1930s, the Soviet government under [[Joseph Stalin]] began selling art treasures and other valuables seized from the [[House of Romanov|Romanov family]] and former Russian aristocrats after the [[Russian Revolution]] to earn hard currency for its industrialization and military armament programs. Critics{{who|date=August 2016}} have claimed that these items were expropriated; however, the transactions by Post and her third husband, [[Joseph E. Davies]],{{efn|Joseph E. Davies was the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia|United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union]] from November 23, 1936 to June 11, 1938. He wrote about his experiences in the 1941 book ''Mission to Moscow''.}} were from the recognized governmental authority.<ref name=Wright>{{cite book| last=Wright| first=William| title=Heiress: The Rich Life of Marjorie Merriweather Post| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gik1AAAAIAAJ&q=russian+art| publisher=New Republic Books| year=1978| isbn=978-0915220366| pages=164–165}}</ref> Neither Post nor Davies were involved with the original seizing of the items. Allegations later surfaced that many works of art from the [[Tretyakov Gallery]] and other collections were either donated or offered at nominal prices to the couple, who were both art collectors. Davies is also alleged to have purchased art expropriated from Soviet citizens well after the Russian Revolution, including victims of [[Great Purge|Stalin's Terror]] at discount prices from Soviet authorities.<ref name=Wright/><ref>{{cite book| last=Tzouliadis| first=Tim| title=The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKNf4v80tlgC&q=russian+art| publisher=[[Penguin Group|Penguin Press]]| date=July 17, 2008| isbn=978-1-59420-168-4}}</ref>
Many of the items, which remain under the control of the Post estate or its agents, can be viewed at [[Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens|Hillwood]], her former estate.<ref name="Fabrikant"/> Hillwood has operated as a private museum since Post's death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of [[House of Fabergé|Fabergé]], [[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|Sèvres porcelain]], French furniture, tapestries, and paintings.<ref name="NYTObit"/>
== Notable residences ==
* [[Mar-a-Lago]], [[Palm Beach, Florida]]: Designed by [[Marion Sims Wyeth]] and [[Joseph Urban]], Post willed Mar-a-Lago to the United States federal government in 1973 as a retreat for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Rothman|first=Lily|url=https://time.com/4661763/mar-a-lago-donald-trump-marjorie-post/|title=The Mar-a-Lago Club Was a 'Winter White House' Even Before President Got There|date=February 16, 2017|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> Congress repealed acceptance of the estate in 1980 and the Post Foundation sold it to [[Donald Trump]] in 1986. Ultimately the mansion was thus used per Post's will during the [[Presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]]. It was declared a [[List of National Historic Landmarks in Florida|National Historic Landmark]] in 1980; it had been a National Historic Site since 1969.<ref name="nhl">{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1823&ResourceType=Building|title=Mar-a-Lago|date=December 23, 1980|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402032009/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1823&ResourceType=Building|archive-date=April 2, 2009}}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv">{{Cite web|last=McKithan|first=Cecil N.|date=August 31, 1981|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Mar-a-Lago|url={{NHLS url |id=80000961}}|publisher=United States Department of the Interior}} {{NHLS url|id=80000961|title=Includes four exterior photos from 1967.|photos=y}} {{small|(942 kB)}}</ref>
* [[Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens|Hillwood (Washington, D.C.)]]: now operates as a private museum since Post's death and displays her French and Russian art collection, featuring the work of [[House of Fabergé|Fabergé]], [[Manufacture nationale de Sèvres|Sèvres porcelain]], French furniture, tapestries, and paintings.<ref name="NYTObit" />
* [[Camp Topridge]], Upper St. Regis Lake, New York: a "rustic retreat" in the [[Adirondack Mountains]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/28/nyregion/state-finds-no-buyer-for-mountain-camp.html|title=State Finds No Buyer For Mountain Camp|date=April 28, 1985|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 9, 2016}}</ref> It included a fully staffed main lodge and private guest cabins, each staffed with its own butler. The expansive [[Great Camps|Great Camp]], built in 1923 by [[Benjamin A. Muncil]], eventually contained nearly 70 buildings, as well as a Russian [[dacha]], on 300 acres. It was one of only two Adirondack camps to be featured in [[Life (magazine)|''Life'' magazine]].{{citation needed|date = February 2023}}
* ''[[Sea Cloud]]'' (''Hussar V''): a yacht that was personally designed by Post, and built as a replacement for the original yacht ''[[SV Mandalay|Hussar IV]]'' for her and her second husband, [[Edward Francis Hutton|E. F. Hutton]], in 1931. It was the largest privately owned sea-going [[yacht]] in the world at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=689469|title=Sea Cloud - IMO 8843446 Sea Cloud, bt. 1931, gt. 2531|access-date=December 13, 2014}}</ref> They traveled the world on it for portions of the year with their daughter [[Dina Merrill|Nedenia]]. After her divorce from Hutton, she renamed the yacht ''Sea Cloud'', and continued to sail it with her new husband Joseph E. Davies for his ambassadorial trips to the Soviet Union. She sold the yacht in 1955 to the President of the Dominican Republic, [[Rafael Trujillo]]; it is now a cruise ship.
* [[LIU Post|Hillwood (Long Island)]]: Built in 1922 in [[Brookville, New York]], after Post purchased and greatly altered the former Warburton Hall Estate, it was designed in the Tudor revival style by architect Charles Mansfield Hart (1886–1968).<ref name="NYTs_1968_Apr_16" /> Post sold it in 1951 to Long Island University, and the property later became [[LIU Post]]. In 2005, it was restored and renamed Winnick House and is used for campus administration, academic offices and event space.<ref name=":1" />
==Personal
=== Marriages ===
'''Edward Bennett Close''': In 1905, Post married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of [[Greenwich, Connecticut]]. They divorced in 1919. Together, they had two daughters:<ref name="NYTObit" />
*Adelaide Brevoort Close (1908–1998), who married three times,<ref name="Fabrikant">{{cite news| last1=Fabrikant| first1=Geraldine| title=Hillwood Museum Plans Society Bridal Exhibit| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/arts/design/hillwood-museum-plans-society-bridal-exhibit.html| access-date=December 9, 2016| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=March 16, 2011}}</ref> to Thomas Wells Durant, Merrall MacNeille, and Augustus Riggs IV.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/adelaide-brevoort-close-24-cdz70|access-date=2021-02-25|website=www.ancestry.com|title=Adelaide Brevoort Close 1908-1998 - Ancestry®}}</ref>
*[[Eleanor Post Hutton|Eleanor Post Close]] (1909–2006), later known in the media as "Eleanor Post Hutton", married six times,<ref name="Fabrikant" /> to film director [[Preston Sturges]], Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, George Curtis Rand, [[Hans Habe]], Owen D. Johnson (son of author [[Owen Johnson (writer)|Owen Johnson]]), and orchestra conductor [[Léon Barzin]].
Via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would later become the paternal grandfather of actress [[Glenn Close]].
'''[[Edward Francis Hutton]]:''' Post was married for a second time, in 1920, to financier [[Edward Francis Hutton]]. In 1923, he became the chairman of the board of the Postum Cereal Company. Together they developed a larger variety of food products, including [[Clarence Birdseye|Birdseye Frozen Foods]]. The company became the [[General Foods]] Corporation in 1929. Post and Hutton divorced in 1935. They had one daughter:
* [[Dina Merrill|Nedenia Marjorie Hutton]] (1923–2017), better known as the actress [[Dina Merrill]].<ref name="NYTObit" />
[[File:Carlton Skinner aboard the Sea Cloud.jpg|right|thumb|alt=Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, at center, with Carton Skinner at a presentation of a Naval Reserve Pennant.|Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband Ambassador [[Joseph E. Davies]] (center) with [[Carlton Skinner]] at a presentation of a Naval Reserve Pennant on board her yacht ''[[Sea Cloud]]''.]]
'''[[Joseph E. Davies]]''': In 1935, Post married her third husband, [[Joseph E. Davies]], a Washington, D.C., lawyer.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/Addendums_to_Articles/Davies_Post_Wedding.htm |title=Watertown Boy and The Battle Creek Girl |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=17 December 1935 |via=Watertown Historical Society}}</ref> They had no children and were divorced in 1955. From November 1936 to June 1938, in a crucial period leading up to [[World War II]], Davies served as the American ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]], ruled at that time by [[Joseph Stalin]]. Post accompanied Davies to Moscow, and they acquired many valuable Russian works of art from Soviet authorities at very reasonable prices.
'''Herbert A. May:''' Post's final marriage, in 1958, was to Herbert A. May, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and the former master of fox hounds of the Rolling Rock Hunt Club in [[Ligonier, Pennsylvania]]. That marriage ended in divorce in May 1964 and she subsequently reclaimed the name Marjorie Merriweather Post.<ref name="NYTObit" />
=== Death ===
Post died at her Hillwood estate in [[Washington, D.C.]], on September 12, 1973, after a long illness, and was buried there.<ref name="NYTObit">{{cite news| title=Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post Is Dead at 86| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/13/archives/mrs-marjorie-merriweather-post-is-dead-at-86-a-rich-working-woman.html?_r=0| access-date=December 9, 2016| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=September 13, 1973}}</ref> She left the bulk of her estate to her three daughters.<ref name="will">{{cite news| title=Mrs. Post's Will Filed in Capital| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/26/archives/mrs-posts-will-filed-in-capital-bulk-of-her-holdings-left-to-three.html| access-date=December 9, 2016| work=The New York Times| date=September 26, 1973}}</ref>
==In popular culture==
Merriweather Post was portrayed by [[Ann Harding]] in the 1943 film ''[[Mission to Moscow]]''. It was a dramatization of the book by the same title, written by her third husband Joseph E. Davies, who had chronicled his time as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
[[Anne Francis]] portrayed Merriweather Post in the 1987 miniseries ''[[Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story]]''. She was portrayed by Morgan Bradley in the [[History Channel]] [[docudrama]] series ''[[The Food That Built America]]'', which debuted in 2019.
A fictionalized version of Merriweather Post was played by [[Amy Schumer]] in the 2024 Netflix film ''[[Unfrosted]]'' written by [[Jerry Seinfeld]].
In 2008, ''[[The New York Times]]'' published an article, "[[Mystery on Fifth Avenue]]",<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/garden/12puzzle.html?pagewanted=all| work=The New York Times| first=Penelope| last=Green| title=Mystery on Fifth Avenue| date=12 June 2008}}</ref> about a luxury [[Fifth Avenue]] apartment that the occupants, Steven Klinsky and Maureen Sherry, had "redesigned to include hidden compartments, messages, puzzles, poems, codes and games for their four preteen kids."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.observer.com/2008/j-j-abrams-produce-nyts-fifth-avenue-mystery |title=J.J. Abrams to Produce NYT's ''Fifth Avenue'' Mystery |newspaper=The New York Observer |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624233139/http://www.observer.com/2008/j-j-abrams-produce-nyts-fifth-avenue-mystery}}</ref> The apartment was originally part of a triplex built for Merriwether Post in the 1920s. The redesign was undertaken by [[Eric Clough]] and his architectural firm, 212box. American filmmaker [[J. J. Abrams]] purchased the rights to "Mystery on Fifth Avenue" but as yet no film about it has been produced.<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Hart |first=Hugh |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/06/jj-abrams-makes/ |title=J.J. Abrams To Make Movie About Fantastical New York Apartment |magazine=Wired |date=10 June 2008}}</ref>
==Legacy==
[[Merriweather Post Pavilion]] in [[Columbia, Maryland]], is named in her honor because of her years of sustained financial support for the National Symphony.
Merriweather Hall (formerly 'The Post House') and Post Hall, at the [[George Washington University]]'s [[Mount Vernon Seminary and College|Mount Vernon Campus]], is named in her honor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 10, 2024 |title=A Select Chronology of Mount Vernon Seminary and College |url=https://library.gwu.edu/mount-vernon-chronology |access-date=April 10, 2024 |website=GW Libraries and Academic Innovation}}</ref><ref name="Mount Vernon Campus 2023">{{cite web | title=Post Hall — The George Washington University | website=Mount Vernon Campus | date=2023-03-07 | url=https://mountvernon.gwu.edu/post-hall | access-date=2023-10-05}}</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Close City, Texas]], named for E.B. Close
* [[Post Cereals]]
* [[Post, Texas]]
* [[Merriweather Post Pavillion]]
==Notes==
{{Notelist}}
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://library.gwu.edu/ead/mvc0017.xml Guide to the Mount Vernon Seminary and College Collection of Biographical Materials and Correspondence with Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1901-1999, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University]
* [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85519?byte=56106741;focusrgn=summaryinfo;subview=standard;view=reslist Finding Aid for the Post Family Papers, 1882-1973, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan]
* {{cite web |last=Lisenbee |first=Kenneth |title=MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST: a biography by Kenneth Lisenbee |website=paulbowles.org |date=2011-05-15 |url=https://paulbowles.org/marjoriemerriweatherpost.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218151449/https://paulbowles.org/marjoriemerriweatherpost.html |archive-date=2022-02-18 |url-status=dead |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Stuart |first=Nancy Rubin |author-link=Nancy Rubin Stuart |title=American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post |publisher=Villard Books |___location=New York |year=1995 |isbn=9780679413479 |oclc=30733706 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanempressl00rubi |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
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