Five generations of the Ragetté family have helped New Yorkers buy, sell and invest in homes since 1885: first in the Bronx, then in Mount Vernon, Eastchester and across Westchester County.
Anton Ragetté arrived in New York from France in 1879, a 23-year-old immigrant who settled in the Bronx and took whatever work he could find. From a small office on Third Avenue he sold coal, wood, steamship tickets and real estate.
In 1885 he founded the real estate agency that still carries the family name, the same year the Statue of Liberty was delivered to New York Harbor on a ship from France. He also built apartment houses in the Bronx.
Anton’s son Rudolph, one of seven Ragetté children, entered the real estate business after working as a reporter and later as the advertising manager of The North Side News.
Rudolph became president of Ragetté Realty in 1918 and moved the office north to Mount Vernon, where his son, Ralph E. Ragetté, was born two years later.
Ralph E. Ragetté earned his real estate license in 1938, at 18, and joined his father’s firm, selling by day and taking business courses at New York University at night.
When Rudolph died in 1941, Ralph and his sister Madeline took over the business together. Ralph left to serve in the Army during the Second World War, and Madeline ran the firm until he returned home.
“141 years later, Anton’s rolltop desk is still in the Ragetté family.”
Five generations, one family name
After the war, Ralph moved the firm to larger offices in Eastchester and led it as president while Westchester grew around it.
In the late 1960s, he created an in-house training program for sales associates and expanded the business into insurance, corporate relocation, and commercial real estate. By 1974, the firm also had an office in Armonk.
In the late 1970s, the fourth generation joined the firm: Ralph R. Ragetté II became treasurer, and Mark F. Ragetté developed the home insurance division. Both worked alongside their father through the decades that followed.
Today the firm is led by Ralph R. Ragetté III, the fifth generation of the family, from its office at 44 South Broadway in White Plains.
In its 142nd year, Ragetté Real Estate serves buyers and sellers across Westchester County and the surrounding region, from first homes to estates, with the same local focus Anton started with.
1st generationAnton RagettéFounder, 1885
2nd generationRudolph RagettéPresident from 1918
3rd generationRalph E. RagettéJoined in 1938; led the firm after the war
4th generationRalph R. Ragetté IIJoined in the late 1970s
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