T.B. Ackerson Company was a

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company that built several

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in the

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during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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,

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, Beverly Road and Cortelyou Road. The development, known as Beverly Square East, was completed and fully sold by 1901. In the 1920s, the company developed a neighborhood over a portion of shipping tycoon Carlos W. Munson's estate in

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. Its former real estate office building for

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is now a station house for the

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, at the corner of Avenue H and East 16th Street. The building was designated a landmark by the

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in 2005.

Notable developments

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(in

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) * West Midwood (in Brooklyn) *

(in Brooklyn) *

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(on Long Island; now an incorporated village of the same name)

References

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