Industry | Real estate development |
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Founded | 1922 |
Founder | Robert C. Knapp W. Seward Webb |
Defunct | after 1965 |
Webb and Knapp was a real estate development firm.
The company is most famous for developing the Roosevelt Airfield, which was the launching site of the transatlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. It was also the firm at which famed architect I. M. Pei first worked from 1948 to 1956.[citation needed]