ACKERMAN, Frederick Lee (1878-1950), a prominent architect in New York City and active there in partnership with Alexander B. Trowbridge, as Trowbridge & Ackerman, Architects, from 1906 to 1921. In 1909 Ackerman was commissioned to design a summer residence and fishing camp at Holmes Lake, near CHATHAM, NEW BRUNSWICK for a wealthy New York stockbroker George Dupont Pratt. Known as “Pratt Lodge”, and located in northern New Brunswick near the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River, the camp buildings consisted of a lodge, dining hall, boathouses, a cookhouse, and bunk houses (C.R. [Toronto], xxiii, 20 Oct. 1909, 22; Union Advocate [Newcastle, N.B.], 24 Feb. 1909; 13 Oct. 1909; 28 June 1910). Designed in a rustic wood style, this complex still stands today as of 2020.
Ackerman was born on 9 July 1878 in Edmeston, N.Y. and graduated from the School of Architecture at Cornell University in 1901. He trained with A.B. Trowbridge in New York, and in 1906 was invited to form a partnership with him. After 1920, he took an interest in community and public housing, contributing to the design of Sunnyside Gardens in Queen's, N.Y., one of first planned communities in the United States, and in the design of the new town of Radburn, New Jersey. Ackerman died in New York on 17 March 1950 (obituary A.I.A. Journal [Washington], xiv, Dec. 1950, 249-54; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, p. 7; biog. Who Was Who in America 1942-1950)