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About Arthur Clarence Smadbeck
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from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sloane
He [Howard G. "Peter" Sloane] is the maternal grandson of Arthur and Ruth (Shear) Smadbeck, who as fellow philanthropists and friends of August Heckscher ran the Heckscher Foundation after the Great Depression of the 1930s resulted in the deterioration of the Foundation's assets to the point of near collapse. Arthur Smadbeck was a real estate developer who was a president of the New York Coliseum,[3][4] which was built from 1954 to 1956 by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority under city planner Robert Moses, who was a friend of Smadbeck. The complex was demolished in 2000 to make way for the Time Warner Center. Smadbeck and his brother Warren were known as "The Henry Fords of Real Estate"[5] because of their style of making vacation land and home ownership possible for the average person, and for their ownership of Havana, Cuba hotel properties during the Fulgencio Batista era, including the Hotel Presidente. The Smadbeck brothers were participants in development of Putnam Lake, New York, Fire Island Pines, New York and Lake Caramel, New York.
Fire Island Pines, New York
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Developers and real estate owners - The Smadbecks
Plans for development first began in 1952 when Warren and Arthur Smadbeck, doing business as the Home Guardian Company, announced plans to sell 122 lots in the new subdivision while building a private harbor for yachts, a large landing dock, and a private park facing the harbor. The Smadbecks, who sold more than 700,000 lots around the country, had purchased the property from the Sammis family, which had owned it since buying most of Fire Island in 1855 when they built the Surf Hotel near the Fire Island Light, in what is now the community of Kismet.
The basic Smadbeck layout of the Pines remains to this day, including the Botel which was designed to be a simple, no-frills, dormitory style accommodation for those who docked their yachts in the harbor.
Among the earliest property owners were Pola Negri, Xavier Cugat, Mary Martin and Joan McCracken. A 15-year-old Jane Fonda taught dance classes.
- http://spoonercentral.com/sylvanspoon/Smadbeck2.html
- Residence: 1900 - New York City, New York, New York
- Residence: 1910 - Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York
- Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree by SmartCopy: Dec 6 2015, 15:57:52 UTC
- Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via son Louis Smadbeck by SmartCopy: Dec 6 2015, 16:05:48 UTC
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Virginia Sloane (born Smadbeck) by SmartCopy: Dec 6 2015, 19:28:28 UTC
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Arthur Clarence Smadbeck's Timeline
| 1887 |
March 4, 1887
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New York, New York, United States
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| 1920 |
July 24, 1920
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New York, New York, United States
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| 1977 |
September 6, 1977
Age 90
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New York, New York, United States
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