Revision as of 03:16, 25 November 2023 edit Rontrigger (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 26,506 edits m →‎Thoroughbred horse racing ← Previous edit		Revision as of 03:18, 25 November 2023 edit undo Rontrigger (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 26,506 edits m →‎Personal life Next edit →
Line 62: * John Whitney Payson (1940–2016),<ref>{{Cite web \|title=John Whitney Payson Obituary (2016) Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram \|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mainetoday-pressherald/name/john-payson-obituary?id=17321915 \|access-date=2022-06-30 \|website=Legacy.com}}</ref> who was married to Joanne D'Elia.<ref>{{cite web\|title=ORCA – Ocean Research and Conservation Association – Team & Staff\|url=http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/about_payson.cfm\|website=www.teamorca.org\|access-date=December 1, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202100928/http://www.teamorca.org/cfiles/about_payson.cfm\|archive-date=December 2, 2016\|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Span\|first1=Paula\|last2=Tully\|first2=Judd\|title=$53.9 MILLION FOR VAN GOGH\|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/11/12/539-million-for-van-gogh/446b8ac5-4d93-47cb-95ce-434ab7097441/\|access-date=December 1, 2016\|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]\|date=November 12, 1987}}</ref> Joan Whitney Payson died in New York City, aged 72, after the 1975 baseball season. She is buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery, in [[Falmouth, Maine]]. Following her death, her daughter, [[Lorinda de Roulet]], assumed the title of president of the New York Mets.<ref name="nyt-1975-10-05">{{cite news \|title=Joan Whitney Payson, 72, Mets Owner, Dies; Head of Greentree Stables Inherited Millions in 20's \|first=Joseph \|last=Durso \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/10/05/archives/joan-whitney-payson-72-mets-owner-dies-head-of-greentree-stables-in.html \|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] \|date=October 5, 1975 \|page=63 \|access-date=September 5, 2011}}</ref> Her heirs sold their stock in the ~~New York~~ Mets in January 1980 as well as [[Greentree Farm]]. In 2005, the equestrian property in Saratoga Springs was put up for sale with an asking price of $19 million. In 1991, her son, John Whitney Payson, permanently installed the Joan Whitney Payson Collection in the [[Portland Museum of Art]] in [[Portland, Maine]] where the Charles Shipman Payson Building cornerstones the Museum and is home to seventeen paintings by [[Winslow Homer]] he donated. Besides the Greentree estate in Manhasset, the family lived in an Italian Renaissance-palazzo style mansion in Manhattan later known as the [[Payne Whitney House]]. It was a wedding present from Joan's great uncle, Oliver Payne, her father's namesake, and designed by [[Stanford White]]. Located at 972 Fifth Avenue, it housed not just the family but 13 servants.<ref name=sabr-whitney/>

Joan Whitney Payson: Difference between revisions