Webb and Knapp

Webb and Knapp

Webb and Knapp was a real estate development firm, founded in 1922 by Robert C. Knapp and W. Seward Webb [ [http://www.thecityreview.com/madison.html The City Review] ] , along with Eliot Cross, a noted architect, who along with his brother John Walter Cross, formed the architectural partnership of Cross and Cross. William Zeckendorf joined the Firm in 1938 [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,934084-1,00.html Time Magazine- Mr. Knickerbocker's Face Lifting] ] and acquired it in 1949. Under his control the Firm developed, amongst other projects, Roosevelt Airfield, which was the site of the start of the transatlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh's and Amelia Earhart.


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