The Founding of NYBG
This site was chosen for the location of the future New York Botanical Garden after considerable discussion in the 1880s.
What is the Bronx Park?
This financier, whose name still appears above thousands of bank branches worldwide, served as NYBG's first Treasurer from 1895 to 1899.
Who was J. Pierpont Morgan?
NYBG's first sponsored botanical expedition in 1898 went to this island in the Caribbean?
What is Puerto Rico?
This famous and illuminating inventor worked with NYBG scientists in the 1920s & 30s on rubber tires.
Who was Thomas Edison?
This artist, who sadly passed away earlier this year, was the subject of NYBG's 2021 Summer Exhibition?
Who was Yayoi Kusama?
The inspiration for NYBG came from a visit to this world-famous botanical garden outside London.
What are the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew?
This railroad and shipping heir, whose family built Biltmore, and whose descendants include Anderson Cooper, became NYBG's first President.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Famous for many things, including its Blue Mountain coffee, this Caribbean island hosted NYBG's tropical field station beginning in 1903.
What is Jamaica?
In 1975, the Emperor of what country visited NYBG as part of his U.S. visit?
What is Japan? Or who was Emperor Hirohito of Japan?
NYBG's 2012 exhibition recreated the French water garden of this Impressionist artist, complete with water lilies.
Who was Claude Monet?
By adding many more acres in 1915, NYBG briefly reached what size?
What is nearly 400 acres?
This steel magnate served as an NYBG Vice President beginning in 1895.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
Launched in the 1990s, this NYBG database was among the first efforts anywhere to put herbarium specimen records and images online.
What is the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium?
Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, and Liev Schreiber attended a fictional gala at the Conservatory in this 2004 thriller movie.
What is The Manchurian Candidate?
Though fewer than a dozen of her poems were published while she lived, this Amherst poet left behind nearly 1,800 works; and in 2010 NYBG recreated her homestead garden.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
Prior to being renamed "Botanical Garden," what was the train station, now part of Metro-North, near NYBG called until 1906?
What was Bedford Park Station?
This college, now a university, provided one of the first major $25,000 contributions to NYBG.
What is Columbia University? (or what was Columbia College).
A specimen of this Sumatran giant bloomed at the Garden in 1937 - the first flowering ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere - and led the borough to adopt it as the official flower of the Bronx, a title it held until 2000.
What is the Amorphophallus titanium (Corpse flower)?
This still-popular breakfast cereal was invented by Dr. Alexander P. Anderson at NYBG in the early 1900s.
What is Puffed Wheat?
This Mexican artist’s garden at the Casa Azul (Blue House), her lifelong home, was part of the inspiration for NYBG's exhibition on her works and life.
Who was Frida Kahlo?
Founded in 1801, New York’s first botanical garden was located on what is now a different cultural landmark.
What is Rockefeller Center in Manhattan?
The only woman among the eleven founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects, she drew up the plan for the Garden's rose garden in 1916.
Who was Beatrix Farrand?
With Joseph Nelson Rose of the Smithsonian, Nathaniel Britton produced a four-volume monograph between 1919 and 1923 that remains foundational to the study of this plant family.
What is the cactus family (Cactaceae)?
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder appeared in scenes filmed at NYBG for this Edith Wharton novel adaptation.
What is The Age of Innocence?
This British sculptor, famous for his large abstract reclining figures and public sculptures, had 20 of his pieces displayed at NYBG in 2008?
Who was Henry Moore?