In 1908, John D. Rockefeller hired William Welles Bosworth to design a winter storage facility for his orange trees, which Bosworth modeled on the Orangerie at Versailles. Rockefeller’s Beaux Arts Orangerie was built on the family’s Hudson Valley estate, and was turned over to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1979 along with other historic buildings on the estate. In agreement with the National Trust, the buildings were turned into the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)-run Pocantico Center, a destination for arts and educational programs.
As AN reported in 2019, the RBF announced plans to turn the Orangerie into a public arts venue. FXCollaborative
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