Fred F. French

Frederick Fillmore French (October 14, 1883 – August 30, 1936) was a real estate developer active primarily in New York City.

His largest developments include the Fred F. French Building, Tudor City, and Knickerbocker Village.

[3] He grew up at East 162nd Street in the Bronx and attended the Horace Mann High School through a Pulitzer scholarship.

[1]: 2 [2]: 14 After graduating high school, French went to Princeton University for one year before moving to Mexico "for a taste of ranching".

[1]: 3 [2]: 15  French built Tudor City, a housing development on Manhattan's East Side, for the rising middle class in the 1920s.

[10] He died on August 30, 1936, of a heart attack at his summer home, Hammersley Hills, in Pawling, New York, that he had been going to since 1929.