perfume dispensers and an intercom. Philanthropy Baker provided much of the initial funding for Harvard Business School with a 1924 grant of $5 million, for which Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate and named the library after him. In 1922, Baker established a $1 million dollar endowment fund for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Baker had been a member of the museum board since 1909. Baker donated $2 million to Cornell University for the construction of the Baker Laboratory of Chemistry, as well as Baker dormitories, and he endowed the Baker Lecture Series, the oldest continuous lectureship in chemistry in the United States. He made other large donations to charitable causes throughout New York City and funded the construction of Baker Field, Columbia University's primary athletic facility. He provided $2 million for Baker Memorial Library at Dartmouth College. References External links Baker family papers at Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School George F. Baker's 1929 Pierce Arrow Top Hat LaBaron at White Glove Collection Columbia's Baker Athletic Complex: Donated By Exploiter of Black Convict Labor? Patch.Com 1840 births 1931 deaths Philanthropists from New York (state) Businesspeople from Troy, New York American bankers American financiers Harvard Business School people George