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2 unusual facts about Guggenheim family


Château Beauregard

In 1932 the architectural firm of Henry M. Polhemus and Lewis Augustus Coffin designed and built a replica of the château on the expansive Gould-Guggenheim estate in Port Washington, Long Island, NY, for Mrs Daniel Guggenheim named "Mille-Fleurs"; it still stands in a Nassau County park.

Francis Butler Simkins

In addition to the Dunning Prize, Simkins held research fellowships at the Social Science Research Council and the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, delivered the Fleming Lectures at LSU and the Centennial Lectures at the University of Mississippi.



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