Rockefeller Center (New York City, New York)

 business centre/building, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, tourist attraction, U.S. National Historic Landmark

Series of 19 commercial buildings built by the Rockefeller Group to a design by the Associated Architects - Reinhard & Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, and Hood & Fouilhoux (with help from Benjamin Wistar Morris and Frederick Godley). Rockefeller Center began as an Art Deco complex between 5th and 6th Avenues and 48th and 51st Streets, opened in 1932. Between the 1950s and 70s it was then expanded with a series of four towers along 6th Avenue, now renamed Avenue of the Americas. Rockefeller Center was finally extended to Seventh Avenue in 2001 with the addition of the Lehman Brothers Building, now the Barclays Capital Building.

The name "Rockefeller Center" is a bit confusingly used today, as the historic core of the complex, east of 6th Avenue, was sold in 1989 and 3 of the of the 5 modern additions west of 6th Avenue were also later sold. The Rockefeller Group now only owns the the remaining 2 modern towers(1221 Avenue of the America and 1271 Avenue of the Americas). Both portions of Rockefeller Center use that famous name on their websites to refer to their individual areas of the entire complex.

www.rockefellercenter.com


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