{"id":29,"date":"2014-12-03T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-12-18T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T22:21:53","slug":"the-odyssey-of-henry-phipps-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/thedigs\/2014\/12\/03\/the-odyssey-of-henry-phipps-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"The odyssey of Henry Phipps Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Henry Phipps gave Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens to the city of Pittsburgh in 1893. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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This 160-acre estate on Long Island belonged to the son of Henry Phipps. Now known as Westbury House & Gardens, it is open to the public. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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This is the Philadelphia birthplace of Henry Phipps as it looked around 1850. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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This 1934 photo shows Henry Phipps Jr. with his wife, Anne Childs Shaffer, the daughter of a Pittsburgh manufacturer. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

If you wander through Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Schenley Park this season to admire the holiday trees, plants and decorations, consider the odyssey of Henry Phipps Jr.<\/p>\n

The quiet philanthropist gave the elegant, lush greenhouse to the city of Pittsburgh in 1893.<\/p>\n

Born in Philadelphia in 1839, he was the son of immigrants who came to America from Shropshire, England. His father was a shoemaker and, in 1845, moved the family to Old Allegheny, now Pittsburgh\u2019s North Side.<\/p>\n

There, the teen-aged Henry Phipps met and befriended Andrew Carnegie, a young Scotsman. The two men became business partners in Carnegie Steel. An excellent financier, Phipps was the company\u2019s second largest shareholder.<\/p>\n

He sold his shares in 1901 to J.P. Morgan for more than $50 million. He also was a successful real estate investor and, like Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, built a fashionable mansion in New York.<\/p>\n

Mr. Phipps believed in the power of philanthropy. He funded the Phipps Institute for the Study, Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis at the University of Pennsylvania. He also gave about $1.8 million to a psychiatric clinic at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 1905, he established a $1 million fund to build housing for the poor in New York City. Mr. Phipps died in 1930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quiet philanthropist gave the elegant, lush greenhouse to the city of Pittsburgh in 1893.<\/p>\n

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