[2] Her father was the German-born Jewish American philanthropist Leonard Lewisohn.
Her family’s wealth supported institutions such as Lewisohn Stadium, a nucleus of the Metropolitan Museum’s costume wing, the Neighborhood Playhouse, and the Henry Street Settlement.
In London, she and her friends ran a charity flower shop.
Lewishohn later operated an antiques shop in New York to fund gardens along the East River, which was “where tenement children might first glimpse their first growing plant.” Her philanthropy extended to a practice called “home hospitality”: dinner guests ranged from ambassadors to taxi drivers.
I can’t remember and I’m sure if I did, I’d be so old, I’d have to bury me.” [4] This article incorporates text from a free content work.