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.
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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
