THE ROCKEFELLER BLOODLINE
Real estate and institutions
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, NY, U.S.
One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Rockefeller Center at night, December 1934
Riverside Church
The Cloisters, Upper Manhattan
The family was heavily involved in numerous real estate construction projects in the U.S. during the 20th century.[14] Chief among them:
Rockefeller Center, a multi-building complex built at the start of the Depression in Midtown Manhattan, financed solely by the family
International House of New York, New York City, 1924 (John Jr.) {Involvement: John III, Abby Aldrich, David & Peggy, David Jr., Abby O'Neill}
Wren Building, College of William and Mary, Virginia, from 1927 (Renovation funded by Junior)
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1927 onwards (Junior), Abby Aldrich, John III and Winthrop, historical restoration
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, from 1929 (Abby Aldrich, John Jr., Blanchette, Nelson, David, David Jr., Sharon Percy Rockefeller)
Riverside Church, New York City, 1930 (John Jr.)
The Cloisters, New York City, from 1934 (John Jr.)
The Interchurch Center, New York City, 1948 (John Jr.)
Asia Society (Asia House), New York City, 1956 (John III)
One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York City, 1961 (David)
Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York, 1962 (Nelson)
Lincoln Center, New York City, 1962 (John III)
World Trade Center Twin Towers, New York City, 1973–2001 (David and Nelson)
Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, 1974 (David)
Council of the Americas/Americas Society, New York City, 1985 (David)
In addition to this is Senior and Junior's involvement in seven major housing developments:
Forest Hill Estates, Cleveland, Ohio
City Housing Corporation's efforts, Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, New York City
Thomas Garden Apartments, The Bronx, New York City
Paul Laurence Dunbar Housing, Harlem, New York City
Lavoisier Apartments, Manhattan, New York City
Van Tassel Apartments, Sleepy Hollow, New York (formerly North Tarrytown)
A development in Radburn, New Jersey[15][16]
A further project involved David Rockefeller in a major middle-income housing development when he was elected in 1947 as chairman of Morningside Heights, Inc., in Manhattan by fourteen major institutions that were based in the area, including Columbia University. The result, in 1951, was the six-building apartment complex known as Morningside Gardens.[17]
Senior's donations led to the formation of the University of Chicago in 1889; the Central Philippine University in the Philippines (The first Baptist university and second American university in Asia); and notable for the Chicago School of Economics.[18] This was one instance of a long family and Rockefeller Foundation tradition of financially supporting Ivy League and other major colleges and universities over the generations—seventy-five in total. These include:
Harvard University
Dartmouth College
Princeton University
University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University
Yale University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brown University
Tufts University
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania
Case Western Reserve University
Institutions overseas such as London School of Economics and University College London, among many others.[19]
Senior (and Junior) also created
Rockefeller University in 1901
General Education Board in 1902, which later (1923) evolved into the International Education Board
Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in 1910
Bureau of Social Hygiene in 1913 (Junior)
International Health Division in 1913
China Medical Board in 1915.
Rockefeller Museum, Israel, 1925–30
In the 1920s, the International Education Board granted important fellowships to pathbreakers in modern mathematics, such as Stefan Banach, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and André Weil, which was a formative part of the gradual shift of world mathematics to the US over this period.
To help promote cooperation between physics and mathematics Rockefeller funds also supported the erection of the new Mathematical Institute at the University of Göttingen between 1926 and 1929
The rise of probability and mathematical statistics owes much to the creation of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, partly by the Rockefellers' finances, also around this time.[20]
John D Jr. established International House at Berkeley.
Junior was responsible for the creation and endowment of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which operates the restored historical town at Williamsburg, Virginia, one of the most extensive historic restorations ever undertaken.