Mary Clark Thompson

Thompson was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] and a great benefactor to the Bronx Zoo and Woman's Hospital.

[4] Her husband died in 1899 at age 62 in New York City,[5] and Mary continued to make Sonnenberg her summer home.

She continued to give generously to civic, religious, and educational institutions, though her philanthropic work focused principally on the community in which she lived.

Thompson Hospital in 1903 and the Woodlawn Cemetery chapel, and a swimming school on the shore of Canandaigua Lake.

She had an interest in preserving the history of Native Americans in the New York area, and made multiple contributions to the State Museum in Albany for that purpose.

[7] Although the Thompson's principal residence was at 283 Madison Avenue in New York City, the couple spent their summers in Mary's girlhood home of Canandaigua on an estate they purchased in 1863.