Jacqueline Kennedy and Grand Central Terminal. Not only is the White House preserved because of Jackies Association, but Grand Central Station still stands because of her. Jacqueline Kennedy started an Association to keep the White House beautiful, and she saved a train station too, “Americans care about their past, but for short-term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters,” she wrote in a persuasive letter to Mayor Abe Beame. Within a week of receiving this letter, Mayor Beame issued a statement declaring Grand Central a landmark building. This was one of many victories for the City of New York and for the wife of the 35th President of the United States, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. During her lifetime, “Jackie O”, as she was often called, captured the imagination of Americans with her reserved intelligence and forceful personality. She used her “cause célèbre” by appearing at press conferences, like the one in Grand Central’s Oyster Bar in yesterday’s WomanScape article. Jacqueline’s ability to lobby local politicians and dignitaries stemmed from her ability to woo Americans, something she had done while living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Her legacy, renovating a tired White House from 1961-63 and sharing it with the public, made her extremely popular. Jacqueline poured her love of design and architecture into the White House and went on to save Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square. After that, she moved to New York City. So when New Yorker’s needed her, Jacqueline had found a new mission. She partnered with the Municipal Art Society and helped create the Landmarks Preservation Law in 1965. This lead to her joining the Committee to Save Grand Central Station and in 1978, after MANY COURT BATTLES all the way up to the SUPREME COURT, the Terminal was finally saved. The photo below shows the newly rebuilt Grand Central Terminal in 1913 from the Getty Library. This is followed by a recent photo from today that shows the modernized Terminal from the inside. New Yorker’s and tourists continue to appreciate the legacy of Jacqueline’s preservation fight. It is memorialized in a plaque donated by the City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which runs Grand Central Terminal. In 2014, the MTA honored Jacqueline by RENAMING the station’s main entrance at 42nd Street and Park Avenue after her." https://womanscape.com/2018/09/06/jacqueline-kennedy-and-grand-central-terminal/