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unusual facts about Payne Whitney



Juliana R. Force

Force's first job was as the personal secretary of socialite Helen Hay (wife of Payne Whitney).

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

The building was donated to Yale by John Hay Whitney, of the Yale class of 1926, in honor of his father, Payne Whitney.

Payne Whitney House

Commissioned in 1902 by Payne Whitney's uncle Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne as a wedding gift for his nephew and his bride, Helen Hay, the Colonel had put up $625,000 to build the five-story mansion, the construction of which was still under White's supervision when he was murdered in 1906.


see also

Kocsis

James Kocsis, professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic

Payne Whitney Gymnasium

For the design of Payne Whitney Gymnasium, architect John Russell Pope was awarded the Silver Medal at the 1932 Olympic Games Art Competition.