Son of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Simonton. His ashes were interred at the Daniel Cemetery, University Park, Dallas, Texas and at the Texas State Cemetery , Austin, Texas. His wife, Margaret, is the great-great granddaughter of Frances Simms Daniel on whose land the cemetery was built in 1846.
Their children include: Robert, Howard, Harlan, Trammell S., Lucy Billingsley and Stuart.
The following is contributed by Mary K Ward (#6603498)
Fred Trammell Crow was a legendary Dallas real estate developer, born June 10, 1914 a Dallas native, the fifth of eight children of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Inez Simonton. He died January 14, 2009 age 95 at his ranch near Tyler, Texas, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
His father, Jefferson Crow, worked as a bookkeeper for Collett Munger – one of Dallas' early real estate developers and the builder of Munger Place subdivision. From age 10. Trammell worked at odd jobs, including plucking chickens, cleaning bricks, and unloading boxcars, until his father forbade it.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1932. Because of the Great Depression, Trammell Crow worked after high school at odd jobs. In 1933, he got a job for about $13 a week as a runner for Mercantile National Bank in Dallas and attended night school in accounting at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1938 at age 24, the youngest CPA in Texas.
He was a CPA for 3 years before joining the US Navy in 1940 using his background in accounting. He was given a commission auditing the books of defense contractors. After WWII, he remained with the Navy for another year to handle final settlements with its contractors.
He then returned to Dallas and became an agent for North American Van Lines moving company. After that he was a wholesale grain merchandiser and tripled the sizes of the warehouses, and erected new loading facilities. When the the grain business faded, he switched at age 33 to warehouse real estate development.
He is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.
Crow built his first warehouse in 1948 and leased it to Ray-O-Vac Battery Company. It had extra space so Crow found additional tenants. He convinced Decca Records to sign for the leftover space, and began a career as a "speculative builder", a new concept in property development.
In the late 1940s he built a single-story warehouse on the banks of the Trinity River. In partnerships with John M. Stemmons, he became one of the largest developers in the Trinity River Industrial Park. By the middle 1950s, Crow was Dallas' largest warehouse builder.
By 1970, Crow had developed Trammell Crow Company into a nationwide organization. Forbes in 1971 and The Wall Street Journal in 1986 called Crow the largest landlord in the US. saying the company he founded was then the largest developer in the nation.
Crow once had interests in nearly 300,000,000 square feet (28,000,000 m2) of developed real estate, comprising eight thousand properties in more than 100 cities. His holdings were said to be much larger than those of William Zeckendorf and Donald Trump and included hotels, hospitals, residential developments, and warehouses. The Austin Business Journal said "When compared to Trammell Crow, other real estate companies are for the birds. Yahoo! Finance estimated that the company managed nearly 550,000,000 square feet (51,000,000 m2) of warehouse, service center, and retail space in the US and Canada.
As of June, 2007, the company scheduled the $60 million purchase of the HealthSouth headquarters building in Birmingham, AL.
The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997, when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBG) for approximately $2.2 billion.
Trammell Crow was an enthusiastic collector of East Asian art. His son, Trammell S. Crow went to Yale University with Alex Kerr, and some time later, after Kerr was more established, he became an art purchaser in Tokyo for the Trammell Crow Company at the behest of his father.
In 1998, he and Margaret funded the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art donating 598 of the family's best pieces. It attracts about 80,000 visitors a year. He also commissioned several pieces from artist Bjørn Wiinblad, incorporating them into his Dallas hotel and real estate projects.
Sources: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Dec 15, 2005; NewsBlaze.com; Yahoo! Finance, June 9, 2007; Associated Press at Houston Chronicle, Jan 15, 2009; etc.
Their children include: Robert, Howard, Harlan, Trammell S., Lucy Billingsley and Stuart.
The following is contributed by Mary K Ward (#6603498)
Fred Trammell Crow was a legendary Dallas real estate developer, born June 10, 1914 a Dallas native, the fifth of eight children of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Inez Simonton. He died January 14, 2009 age 95 at his ranch near Tyler, Texas, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
His father, Jefferson Crow, worked as a bookkeeper for Collett Munger – one of Dallas' early real estate developers and the builder of Munger Place subdivision. From age 10. Trammell worked at odd jobs, including plucking chickens, cleaning bricks, and unloading boxcars, until his father forbade it.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1932. Because of the Great Depression, Trammell Crow worked after high school at odd jobs. In 1933, he got a job for about $13 a week as a runner for Mercantile National Bank in Dallas and attended night school in accounting at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1938 at age 24, the youngest CPA in Texas.
He was a CPA for 3 years before joining the US Navy in 1940 using his background in accounting. He was given a commission auditing the books of defense contractors. After WWII, he remained with the Navy for another year to handle final settlements with its contractors.
He then returned to Dallas and became an agent for North American Van Lines moving company. After that he was a wholesale grain merchandiser and tripled the sizes of the warehouses, and erected new loading facilities. When the the grain business faded, he switched at age 33 to warehouse real estate development.
He is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.
Crow built his first warehouse in 1948 and leased it to Ray-O-Vac Battery Company. It had extra space so Crow found additional tenants. He convinced Decca Records to sign for the leftover space, and began a career as a "speculative builder", a new concept in property development.
In the late 1940s he built a single-story warehouse on the banks of the Trinity River. In partnerships with John M. Stemmons, he became one of the largest developers in the Trinity River Industrial Park. By the middle 1950s, Crow was Dallas' largest warehouse builder.
By 1970, Crow had developed Trammell Crow Company into a nationwide organization. Forbes in 1971 and The Wall Street Journal in 1986 called Crow the largest landlord in the US. saying the company he founded was then the largest developer in the nation.
Crow once had interests in nearly 300,000,000 square feet (28,000,000 m2) of developed real estate, comprising eight thousand properties in more than 100 cities. His holdings were said to be much larger than those of William Zeckendorf and Donald Trump and included hotels, hospitals, residential developments, and warehouses. The Austin Business Journal said "When compared to Trammell Crow, other real estate companies are for the birds. Yahoo! Finance estimated that the company managed nearly 550,000,000 square feet (51,000,000 m2) of warehouse, service center, and retail space in the US and Canada.
As of June, 2007, the company scheduled the $60 million purchase of the HealthSouth headquarters building in Birmingham, AL.
The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997, when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBG) for approximately $2.2 billion.
Trammell Crow was an enthusiastic collector of East Asian art. His son, Trammell S. Crow went to Yale University with Alex Kerr, and some time later, after Kerr was more established, he became an art purchaser in Tokyo for the Trammell Crow Company at the behest of his father.
In 1998, he and Margaret funded the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art donating 598 of the family's best pieces. It attracts about 80,000 visitors a year. He also commissioned several pieces from artist Bjørn Wiinblad, incorporating them into his Dallas hotel and real estate projects.
Sources: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Dec 15, 2005; NewsBlaze.com; Yahoo! Finance, June 9, 2007; Associated Press at Houston Chronicle, Jan 15, 2009; etc.
Son of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Simonton. His ashes were interred at the Daniel Cemetery, University Park, Dallas, Texas and at the Texas State Cemetery , Austin, Texas. His wife, Margaret, is the great-great granddaughter of Frances Simms Daniel on whose land the cemetery was built in 1846.
Their children include: Robert, Howard, Harlan, Trammell S., Lucy Billingsley and Stuart.
The following is contributed by Mary K Ward (#6603498)
Fred Trammell Crow was a legendary Dallas real estate developer, born June 10, 1914 a Dallas native, the fifth of eight children of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Inez Simonton. He died January 14, 2009 age 95 at his ranch near Tyler, Texas, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
His father, Jefferson Crow, worked as a bookkeeper for Collett Munger – one of Dallas' early real estate developers and the builder of Munger Place subdivision. From age 10. Trammell worked at odd jobs, including plucking chickens, cleaning bricks, and unloading boxcars, until his father forbade it.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1932. Because of the Great Depression, Trammell Crow worked after high school at odd jobs. In 1933, he got a job for about $13 a week as a runner for Mercantile National Bank in Dallas and attended night school in accounting at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1938 at age 24, the youngest CPA in Texas.
He was a CPA for 3 years before joining the US Navy in 1940 using his background in accounting. He was given a commission auditing the books of defense contractors. After WWII, he remained with the Navy for another year to handle final settlements with its contractors.
He then returned to Dallas and became an agent for North American Van Lines moving company. After that he was a wholesale grain merchandiser and tripled the sizes of the warehouses, and erected new loading facilities. When the the grain business faded, he switched at age 33 to warehouse real estate development.
He is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.
Crow built his first warehouse in 1948 and leased it to Ray-O-Vac Battery Company. It had extra space so Crow found additional tenants. He convinced Decca Records to sign for the leftover space, and began a career as a "speculative builder", a new concept in property development.
In the late 1940s he built a single-story warehouse on the banks of the Trinity River. In partnerships with John M. Stemmons, he became one of the largest developers in the Trinity River Industrial Park. By the middle 1950s, Crow was Dallas' largest warehouse builder.
By 1970, Crow had developed Trammell Crow Company into a nationwide organization. Forbes in 1971 and The Wall Street Journal in 1986 called Crow the largest landlord in the US. saying the company he founded was then the largest developer in the nation.
Crow once had interests in nearly 300,000,000 square feet (28,000,000 m2) of developed real estate, comprising eight thousand properties in more than 100 cities. His holdings were said to be much larger than those of William Zeckendorf and Donald Trump and included hotels, hospitals, residential developments, and warehouses. The Austin Business Journal said "When compared to Trammell Crow, other real estate companies are for the birds. Yahoo! Finance estimated that the company managed nearly 550,000,000 square feet (51,000,000 m2) of warehouse, service center, and retail space in the US and Canada.
As of June, 2007, the company scheduled the $60 million purchase of the HealthSouth headquarters building in Birmingham, AL.
The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997, when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBG) for approximately $2.2 billion.
Trammell Crow was an enthusiastic collector of East Asian art. His son, Trammell S. Crow went to Yale University with Alex Kerr, and some time later, after Kerr was more established, he became an art purchaser in Tokyo for the Trammell Crow Company at the behest of his father.
In 1998, he and Margaret funded the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art donating 598 of the family's best pieces. It attracts about 80,000 visitors a year. He also commissioned several pieces from artist Bjørn Wiinblad, incorporating them into his Dallas hotel and real estate projects.
Sources: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Dec 15, 2005; NewsBlaze.com; Yahoo! Finance, June 9, 2007; Associated Press at Houston Chronicle, Jan 15, 2009; etc.
Their children include: Robert, Howard, Harlan, Trammell S., Lucy Billingsley and Stuart.
The following is contributed by Mary K Ward (#6603498)
Fred Trammell Crow was a legendary Dallas real estate developer, born June 10, 1914 a Dallas native, the fifth of eight children of Jefferson Brim Crow and Mary Inez Simonton. He died January 14, 2009 age 95 at his ranch near Tyler, Texas, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
His father, Jefferson Crow, worked as a bookkeeper for Collett Munger – one of Dallas' early real estate developers and the builder of Munger Place subdivision. From age 10. Trammell worked at odd jobs, including plucking chickens, cleaning bricks, and unloading boxcars, until his father forbade it.
He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1932. Because of the Great Depression, Trammell Crow worked after high school at odd jobs. In 1933, he got a job for about $13 a week as a runner for Mercantile National Bank in Dallas and attended night school in accounting at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1938 at age 24, the youngest CPA in Texas.
He was a CPA for 3 years before joining the US Navy in 1940 using his background in accounting. He was given a commission auditing the books of defense contractors. After WWII, he remained with the Navy for another year to handle final settlements with its contractors.
He then returned to Dallas and became an agent for North American Van Lines moving company. After that he was a wholesale grain merchandiser and tripled the sizes of the warehouses, and erected new loading facilities. When the the grain business faded, he switched at age 33 to warehouse real estate development.
He is credited with the creation of several major real estate projects, including the Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.
Crow built his first warehouse in 1948 and leased it to Ray-O-Vac Battery Company. It had extra space so Crow found additional tenants. He convinced Decca Records to sign for the leftover space, and began a career as a "speculative builder", a new concept in property development.
In the late 1940s he built a single-story warehouse on the banks of the Trinity River. In partnerships with John M. Stemmons, he became one of the largest developers in the Trinity River Industrial Park. By the middle 1950s, Crow was Dallas' largest warehouse builder.
By 1970, Crow had developed Trammell Crow Company into a nationwide organization. Forbes in 1971 and The Wall Street Journal in 1986 called Crow the largest landlord in the US. saying the company he founded was then the largest developer in the nation.
Crow once had interests in nearly 300,000,000 square feet (28,000,000 m2) of developed real estate, comprising eight thousand properties in more than 100 cities. His holdings were said to be much larger than those of William Zeckendorf and Donald Trump and included hotels, hospitals, residential developments, and warehouses. The Austin Business Journal said "When compared to Trammell Crow, other real estate companies are for the birds. Yahoo! Finance estimated that the company managed nearly 550,000,000 square feet (51,000,000 m2) of warehouse, service center, and retail space in the US and Canada.
As of June, 2007, the company scheduled the $60 million purchase of the HealthSouth headquarters building in Birmingham, AL.
The Trammell Crow Company was privately held until 1997, when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol TCC. In 2006, the firm was sold to CB Richard Ellis group (NYSE:CBG) for approximately $2.2 billion.
Trammell Crow was an enthusiastic collector of East Asian art. His son, Trammell S. Crow went to Yale University with Alex Kerr, and some time later, after Kerr was more established, he became an art purchaser in Tokyo for the Trammell Crow Company at the behest of his father.
In 1998, he and Margaret funded the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art donating 598 of the family's best pieces. It attracts about 80,000 visitors a year. He also commissioned several pieces from artist Bjørn Wiinblad, incorporating them into his Dallas hotel and real estate projects.
Sources: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, Dec 15, 2005; NewsBlaze.com; Yahoo! Finance, June 9, 2007; Associated Press at Houston Chronicle, Jan 15, 2009; etc.
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