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.
[citation needed] The company was founded in 1922 by Robert C. Knapp and W. Seward Webb.
[citation needed] William Zeckendorf joined the firm in 1938 and acquired it in 1949.
[1] In the 1960s, the company filed for bankruptcy protection and Roosevelt Airfield was sold to Corporate Property Investors.