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The Ballantine House Fund

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#This Place Matters

Join us in supporting the Ballantine House, a crown jewel of the Museum’s campus and an icon of Newark’s Gilded Age. The Ballantine House Fund is dedicated to the care and presentation of our historic mansion. Donations underwrite annual maintenance and critical preservation work necessary to safeguard the site for future generations.
 
Donors to The Ballantine House Fund have funded projects including sensitive monitoring systems and assessment of the historic structure and its original details. Funding also supports research, interpretation, and community engagement to connect the house to new and diverse audiences. 

For more information about the Fund, donor levels, and recognition, please contact Michele Saliola, Director of Individual Giving, at 973.596.6491 or msaliola@newarkmuseumart.org.

Donors of $500 and up are recognized in the Orientation Gallery each year, and receive a copy of a commemorative fully-illustrated publication, The Ballantine House, and an annual report on activities in the Ballantine House. Gifts of stock, securities, matching and tribute gifts and IRA distributions are welcome. For more information, contact Michele Saliola, Director of Individual Giving, at 973.596.6491 or msaliola@newarkmuseumart.org.

Mail In Donation Form for The Ballantine House Fund [PDF]


Donate to The Ballantine House Fund Today

 

About The Ballantine House

A National Historic Landmark, the Ballantine House is a rare Gilded Age mansion surviving in an ever-evolving urban setting. Located in the heart of a vibrant downtown arts district, the house is an icon of Newark’s storied past as a manufacturing center and its present status as a cultural gateway to the vibrant local and global community. 

Built in 1885 for Jeanette and John Holme Ballantine of the celebrated Newark beer-brewing family, the brick and limestone mansion represents the late 19th century ideal home and engages visitors in how the idea of home has evolved through the present. Eleven period rooms and four gallery rooms showcase furniture, glass, ceramics, silver, and other objects from the Decorative Arts collection. They illustrate what Americans may have used in their homes from the 1650s to the present. The ornate interiors reveal the work of skilled Newark craftsmen and women, often immigrants, who carved wood and created stained glass as well as those who produced the wallpapers, textiles, and tiles in industrial centers of the United States.

The Ballantine House Fund

We are pleased to recognize founding donors to The Ballantine House Fund, 
which was created in 2019 to support the care and presentation 
of a unique National Landmark and a beloved Newark icon.

Anonymous

James Chervenak

The Fannie & Morris Sklaw Foundation

The Gelfand Family Foundation

The Hyde and Watson Foundation

Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation

The Paula and William J. Marino Family Foundation

Union Foundation

E.J. Grassmann Trust

Charles Lowrey and Susan Rodriguez

The Karma Foundation

The Lautenberg Foundation

Christopher and Margaret Laffey

Marie H. Cole

Elisabeth and Philip Allen

Betty Feinberg

Christopher and Anne Wiedenmayer

Friends of The Ballantine House

Anonymous

Page E. Bigelow

Geoffrey M. Connor

Elizabeth Del Tufo

Carol and Dexter Earle 

Christine Ertle

Audrey Haimowitz

Barbara Lowell and Arnold Stern

Barbara Haws and William Josephson

Vicky and Richard McGlynn

Linda and Josh Milstein

Michael S. Nelson

Cherry C. Provost

The Ryan Family Foundation

Mary Beth and John Scherer

Margaret Schwartz

Supporters of The Ballantine House

Anonymous (2)

Rosemary A. Arndt

Deborah W. Bailey

Leroy S. Barber

Nancy H. Bargmann

Paula Bier

Dorothy Blostein

Phyllis Bradley

Renee and Kopel Burk

Jay E. Cantor

John E. Coleman

Elyse Constantin 

Mary Cooper

Anne H. Cummings

Marie A. Della Pella

Georgette Deroche

Kathleen Donnelly

Roslyn Edgerton 

Philip Eisner

Richard Fanelli

Barbara M. Ferris

Doris Froehlich 

Mimi Findlay

Susan and Bryan Garruto

Ina and Richard Giardina

Patricia Guida

Martin Gruber 

Anne Helfrich

Helen Hersh

Thomas C. Hills

Susan Huring

Lois Jotz-Walsh

Barbara Kaslow

Thomas V. A. Kelsey

Andrea E. Kircher

Roxanne M. Knott-Kutz 

Paul Kopf

Nathalee Lapidus

Carol E. Lewis

Benay Lipstein

Thomas Marlowe

Arthur R. May

Joyce Michaelson

Carol A. Monroe

Silas Mountsier 

Lynne Mueller

Jill Obertubbesing

Susan Packie

Rocco Petrozzi

Amelia Rocto-James

Roberta B. Rubin

Ronald Rumford

Barbara Sacks

Lynn and Peter Sayre

Claire E. Scarcella 

Jo Ann Schrieks

Dorothy J. Selinger

Lee Sellinger

Floyd Shapiro

Blanche Singer

Patricia R. Sinnot

Joyce Stibitz

Joseph L. Tabourne

Roberta Thaxton

Barbara Ann Tracey

John Trosky

Leslie A. Unger

Elisabeth Vetell

Helen Vetell

Walter Voytus

David Wald 

Claire J. Warlikowski

Martha A. Washington

Alice Weinstein

Lorraine Williams

Minnette N. Zweben

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Monday - Sunday 10am - 5pm
Thursday-Sunday: 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: closed; school groups only (except MLK Jr. Day)
To reserve your tour, call 973.596.6690

Closed: New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving Day & December 25.

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