T. B. Ackerson Company

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.

Former sales office, Fiske Terrace, Brooklyn

History

The company was founded by Thomas Benton Ackerson in 1898. 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 station house for the New York City Subway's Avenue H station, at the corner of Avenue H and East 16th Street. The building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2005.[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

"Guide to the T. B. Ackerson Company Records 1884-1926 Control # A-7 – Queens Public Library Digital". digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
"1924 May 29 Ackerson Obit Eagle". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 29, 1924. p. 2. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
Walsh, Kevin (April 30, 2014). "AVENUE H, Brighton Line". Forgotten New York. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
"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. September 24, 1911. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 19, 2021.

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[:0-1] "Guide to the T. B. Ackerson Company Records 1884-1926 Control # A-7 – Queens Public Library Digital". digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org. Retrieved July 19, 2021.

[2] "1924 May 29 Ackerson Obit Eagle". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 29, 1924. p. 2. Retrieved July 19, 2021.

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

[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. September 24, 1911. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 19, 2021.