Frederick P. Rose

Frederick Phineas Rose (1923–1999) was an American real estate developer, philanthropist, and member of the Rose family.

Biography Rose was born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, one of three sons of Belle and then served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Seabees during World War II Long an opponent of rent control, in the 1990s Rose successfully converted more than 3,000 apartments in Manhattan into condominiums and co-ops.

Philanthropy

Rose was a prominent philanthropist whose lifetime donations totaled $95 million, including $5 million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $15 million to the New York Public Library, $18 million to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and $20 million for the $150 million Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. She returned in mid-life to school and graduated with a B.A. from Manhattanville College and a M.A. in learning disabilities from The College of New Rochelle; she later taught junior high school students in the South Bronx. Samuel Priest Rose, a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver prior to his death in 1994; and Adam Raphael Rose, the former co-president (with cousin Amy Rose) of Rose Associates. His granddaughter is artist Rachel Rose. His funeral was held at the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, New York.