page_title: Ellen Browning Scripps
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Ellen Browning Scripps / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: La Jolla Woman's Club — 715 Silverado Street, La Jolla, San Diego County, California. West (front) elevation and north pergola; The building was designed by Irving Gill, with initial construction in 1913. Historic American Buildings Survey—HABS image.
context_page_description: Ellen Browning Scripps was an American journalist and philanthropist who was the founding donor of several major institutions in Southern California. She and her half-brother E.W. Scripps created America's largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. By the 1920s, Ellen Browning Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million, most of which she gave away.
  In 1924, she founded the Scripps Research Institute, in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, CA. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine after founding Scripps College in Claremont, California. She also donated millions of dollars to organizations worldwide that promised to advance democratic principles and women's education. She never married.
context_section_description: Scripps was nominated and inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame in 2007 hosted by the Women's Museum of California; Commission on the Status of Women; University of California, San Diego Women's Center; and San Diego State University Women's Studies.
  From the 1920s, Scripps was the major benefactor of the San Diego Natural History Museum, financing its building and education programs.  In 1933, the Scripps estate donated over 1,000 watercolor paintings of California wildflowers by A. R. Valentien to the San Diego Natural History Museum.
  The following are institutions Scripps helped to establish or fund:
  Scripps College in Claremont, CA
  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, est. 1903, formerly known as the Marine Biological Association
  Scripps Research Institute
  Scripps Aquarium, La Jolla (now Birch Aquarium at Scripps)
  The Bishop's School in La Jolla, San Diego, CA
  Scripps Memorial Hospital
  Scripps Metabolic Clinic
  La Jolla Woman's Club
  Torrey Pines State Reserve
  The Children's Pool, est. 1931
  Donations to
  Pomona College
  Knox College
  Cleveland College and Cleveland Museum of Natural History
  Constantinople Women's College
  San Diego State University (Scripps Cottage)
  City of Rushville, Illinois
  San Diego Museum Association
  The Children's Home, San Diego
  St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, La Jolla
  La Jolla Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
  La Jolla-Riford Branch Library
  San Diego Society of Natural History
  The San Diego Museum of Man's Ancient Egypt exhibit
  San Diego Zoo
  San Diego YMCA and YWCA
  Asilomar Conference Center (YWCA)
  Community Welfare Building
  Travelers Aid Society of San Diego
caption: La Jolla Woman's Club
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