Background
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (1866—1906) and Doctor Charles Augustus Strong (1862—1940).
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller (1866—1906) and Doctor Charles Augustus Strong (1862—1940).
Margaret saved a row of Neo-Federal townhouses on Park Avenue designed by McKim, Mead & White from destruction by purchasing the property and giving one of the townhouses to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute in 1965. In December 1979, Margaret donated her father"s estate, Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy to Georgetown University which operates an overseas campus there. Her life can be read at "El Inútil de la Familia", book written by Jorge Edwards, a Chilean writer