death was received, Williams College canceled all classes and events. His widow, Mary Clark Thompson, built F. F. Thompson Hospital (now Thompson Health) in his name in Canandaigu, New York. His portrait by John Harrison Littlefield is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Mary Clark Thompson donated the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library building to Vassar College. There is a portrait of Thompson in the Williams College Museum of Art. Mary Clark Thompson donated Frederick Thompson Memorial Chapel to Williams College in his honor. President Theodore Roosevelt attended the dedication of the Frederick Thompson Memorial Chapel. The Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Building, a gymnasium for the woman students at Teachers College, Columbia University, was funded by his widow in 1904. After his death, Mary Clark Thompson renovated and expanded the gardens at Sonnenberg Mansion as a living memorial to her husband. Sonnenberg, its gardens, and fifty acres survive as Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion, a New York State Historic Park. Personal life On June 17, 1857, Thompson married Mary Lee Clark in Canandaigua, New York. She was the daughter Myron H. Clark, the governor of New York. Thompson met her when she was in Albany, New York with her father. The couple did not have any children. Their main home was at 283 Madison Avenue in New York City. It was featured in Artistic Homes magazine in 1883. The house had a hidden staircase, a thirty-square-foot library, and eight stained glass windows depicting The Pilgrim's Progress. Their drawing room had a red wall and red cherry woodwork, and a matching cherrywood grand piano, with bronze reliefs of lilies and sunflowers on the ceiling. The drawing room also featured paintings by John Bunyan Bristol, Sanford Robinson Gifford, William Hart, John Frederick Kensett, Emanuel Leutze, and Alexander Helwig Wyant. The dining room had ten-foot tall paneled mahogany wainscotting and a barreled ceiling. The house also had a billiard room and bowling alley. It was lit by gas, but had electric starters. The house also had a steam elevator, placing it amongst an elite group of New York City homes owned by Jabez A. Bostick, E.N. Dickinson, J. P. Morgan, Frederic W. Stevens, and William Kissam. Vanderbilt. In 1863, the Thompsons purchased a 300-acre farm near Canandaigua Lake in Canandaigua, New York for their summer home. They called it Sonnenberg which is German for “sunny hill." Around 1887, they built Sonnenberg Mansion