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Adelaide Frick Blanchard
editAdelaide Frick Blanchard(1915-1956) was a pediatrician and the owner with her husband Peter Blanchard Jr. (1912-2000) of the estate and grounds at Greenwood Gardens.
Adelaide Frick Blanchard was the eldest child of Childs Frick and Frances Dixon Frick; her siblings were Frances Frick Burden (1916-1971), Martha Frick Symington (1917-1996), and Henry Clay Frick II (1919-2007). The family lived at Clayton, an estate located in Roslyn, N.Y., which was a gift to Childs and his wife from Henry Clay Frick.[1]
Adelaide attended the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia and later studied abroad.[2] In 1943 she graduated from Yale Medical School where she specialized in pediatrics.[3]
She practiced pediatrics at Cornell Medical Center under her maiden name, Dr. Adelaide Frick.[4]
On December 22, 1949 Dr. Adelaide Frick married Peter Blanchard Jr. of Baltimore, Maryland in in the chapel of St. Bartholomew’s Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, New York.[5] Blanchard, a graduate of the Gilman School, Princeton University, and Yale Law School, worked for White & Case and IBM, and was later self-employed.[6] Soon after their wedding, the Blanchards purchased the estate known then as Pleasant Days in Short Hills, N.J. as a country retreat. The couple changed the estate’s name to Greenwood and replanted the gardens originally laid out by architect William Whetten Renwick, whose design featured colorful Arts & Crafts tiles from the Rockwood Company of Cincinnati. [7] The Blanchards had one child, Peter P. Blanchard III, who was born in 1951.
Mrs. Blanchard passed away on March 10, 1956. Her husband retained the estate until his death in 2000.[8]In keeping with his father’s wishes, Peter P. Blanchard III, and his wife, Sofia Blanchard founded the non-profit organization, Greenwood Gardens, which restored the estate and opened it to the public.[9]
- ↑ Frick Family Photographs. The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives.
- ↑ "Adelaide H. C. Frick Becomes Fiancée: Granddaughter of Late Steel Official will be Married to Peter P. Blanchard, Jr." The New York Times. 8 December 1949.
- ↑ >"NATURE; A Jewel In the Moss." The New York Times. 13 May 2004.
- ↑ “Dr. Adelaide Frick." The New York Times. 1 April 1956.
- ↑ "Adelaide H. C. Frick Bride in Chapel Here." The New York Times. 23 December 1949.
- ↑ "BLANCHARD, PETER P., JR." The New York Times. 3 January 2001.
- ↑ “Tiger of the Week: Peter P. Blanchard III ’74.” Princeton Alumni Weekly. 17 April 2013.
- ↑ “A Brief History of Greenwood Gardens.” http://greenwoodgardens.org/a-brief-history-of-greenwood-gardens/.
- ↑ “Spring Showings.” New York Social Diary. 6 May 2013.