Margaret Rockefeller Strong Cuevas (1897-1985) was an American

United States

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 activist.

Cuevas was the daughter of Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong

Elizabeth Rockefeller Strong

Elizabeth "Bessie" Rockefeller Strong was the eldest child of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller ....

 (1866–1906) and her husband Dr. Charles Augustus Strong (1862–1940). Her maternal grandfather was Standard Oil

Standard Oil

Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational...

 co-founder John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller

John Davison Rockefeller was an American oil industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of...

 (1839–1937). She married Jorge Cuevas Bartholín, a Chilean

Chile

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 ballet

Ballet

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 businessman around 1929; they had two children. After his death, she married Raymundo de Larraín Valdés (1935-1988) in 1977.

Cuevas saved a row of Neo-Federal townhouses on Park Avenue

Park Avenue (Manhattan)

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 designed by McKim, Mead & White from destruction by purchasing the property and giving one of the townhouses to the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute

Queen Sofia Spanish Institute

The Queen Sofía Spanish Institute is an organization in New York City founded to promote the Spanish language and the culture of Spain. It is located on 684 Park Avenue in the former Oliver D. Filley House.- History :...

 in 1965. She then donated the corner townhouse to her cousin, David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller, Sr. is the current patriarch of the Rockefeller family. He is the youngest and only surviving child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and the only surviving grandchild of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. His five siblings were...

, who founded the Center for Inter-American Relations there. In December 1979, Margaret donated her father's estate, Villa Le Balze

Villa Le Balze

Villa Le Balze is a garden villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, central Italy. The Villa is owned by Georgetown University and hosts year round study abroad students. Planned in 1911 by Cecil Pinsent for American Charles Augustus Strong, it was built in a tight space along the Tuscan hills overlooking the...

 in Fiesole

Fiesole

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, Tuscany

Tuscany

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, Italy

Italy

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 to Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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 which operates an overseas campus there.

The Marques de Cuevas's life can be read at "El Inútil de la Familia", book written by Jorge Edwards

Jorge Edwards

Jorge Edwards Valdés is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He is currently the Chilean ambassador to France.-Life and career:...

, a Chilean writer.