Spencer Trask
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Spencer Trask was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. Beginning in the 1870s, Trask began investing and supporting entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's commercial produc
Portrait of Spencer Trask
The Spirit of Life
Yaddo
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Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without inter
Spencer Trask
…working community of artists and writers. Twelve years after Spencer's death, Mrs. Trask married George Foster Peabody, and launched the Corporation of Yaddo. This artist community has operated continuously ever since. Yaddo, the name of the estate, is said to have been coined by the Trask's young daughter…
Yaddo in 2025
Christalan (1900), memorial to the Trasks' four children
Postcard of a lake at Yaddo with the Stone Tower studio, a former chapel
Pergola in Yaddo's gardens, photographed c. 1900–20