Originally a part of the Baháʼí Faith, that relationship ended shortly after the New York administration was denied oversight by its founders.
[1] Two of the members of the board of directors were Syud Hossein, ambassador from India to Egypt and Minister to Trans-Jordan; and Basant Koomer a lecturer and educator.
A Foundation Fund directed by a board of directors with attorney Jacob Greenwald as Chairman was set up to continue the work of both the New Historical Society and the Caravan, planning for the day when Sohrab and Julie were no longer around.
In 1953, the Baháʼí materials the group had collected had grown so immense that Julie hired architect, John J. McNamara to design a library within the garden space of the Caravan House.
Julia Chanler stated that ...."as part of the construction [of the library] was a block of white marble that ʻAbdu'l-Bahá had sent to become the corner-stone of the Baháʼí Temple in Wilmette which Sohrab had come to possess.".
An ad for a special meeting of the corporation was placed in The New York Times November 21, 1958 naming Ronald K. Bayford as Executive Secretary.
On October 29, 1961, an announcement of "Two horticultural lectures presented by the Caravan of East and West, an educational, nonprofit organization" appears in The New York Times.