T. B. Ackerson Company

Former sales office, Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn

T.B. Ackerson Company was a real estate development company that built several planned communities in the New York metropolitan area during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

History[]

The company was founded by Thomas Benton Ackerson in 1898.^{[citation needed]} That year, it purchased and began developing land in Flatbush bounded between East 19th Street, Ocean Avenue, Beverly Road and Cortelyou Road. The development, known as Beverly Square East, was completed and fully sold by 1901.^[1]

In the 1920s, the company developed a neighborhood over a portion of shipping tycoon Carlos W. Munson's estate in Flower Hill, New York.^[2]

Its former real estate office building for Fiske Terrace is now a New York City Subway station house located at the corner of Avenue H and East 16th Street, and has been designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.^[3]

Notable developments[]

Beverley Squares (in Brooklyn)^[1]
West Midwood (in Brooklyn)^[1]
Fiske Terrace (in Brooklyn)^[1]
Brightwaters, New York (on Long Island; now an incorporated village of the same name)^[4]^[5]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Guide to the T. B. Ackerson Company Records 1884-1926 Control # A-7 – Queens Public Library Digital". digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
^ "1924 May 29 Ackerson Obit Eagle". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1924-05-29. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
^ Walsh, Kevin (2014-04-30). "AVENUE H, Brighton Line". Forgotten New York. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
^ "A DEMONSTRATION FARM: Being Built at Brightwaters, L.I., for Prospective Farmers". The New York Times. April 9, 1911 – via ProQuest.
^ "BUYS BRIGHTWATERS PLOT.; Builder to Erect a Number of $10,000 Dwellings on Shore Front". The New York Times. 1911-09-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

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[:0-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d "Guide to the T. B. Ackerson Company Records 1884-1926 Control # A-7 – Queens Public Library Digital". digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

[2] "1924 May 29 Ackerson Obit Eagle". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1924-05-29. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

[3] Walsh, Kevin (2014-04-30). "AVENUE H, Brighton Line". Forgotten New York. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

[4] "A DEMONSTRATION FARM: Being Built at Brightwaters, L.I., for Prospective Farmers". The New York Times. April 9, 1911 – via ProQuest.

[5] "BUYS BRIGHTWATERS PLOT.; Builder to Erect a Number of $10,000 Dwellings on Shore Front". The New York Times. 1911-09-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-19.

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