Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas
Margaret Rockefeller Strong Cuevas, Marquesa de Piedra Blanca de Huana de Cuevas (1897–1985 or 1987) was the daughter of Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong (1866–1906) and her husband Dr. Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940). Cuevas' maternal grandfather was Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937). She married firstly to Jorge Cuevas Bartholín (May 26, 1885 - February 22, 1961), Marqués de Piedra Blanca de Huana de Cuevas, a Chilean ballet businessman, in ca 1929, and married secondly in 1977 to Raymundo Larraín y Valdés (–1988), without issue
Cuevas 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. She then donated the corner one to her cousin, David Rockefeller, who founded the Center for Inter-American Relations there. In December 1979, Margaret donated her father's estate, Villa Le Balze in Fiesole, Tuscany to Georgetown University, for which it remains an overseas campus.[1]
Children
- Elisabeth Cuevas y Strong
- John Cuevas y Strong
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