Rockefeller Center - New York, NY
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N 40° 45.537 W 073° 58.631
18T E 586333 N 4512501
One of the most famous places in the city.
Waymark Code: WM13ZAF
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2021
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The plaque says, "Rockefeller Center is one of the foremost architectural projects undertaken in America in terms of scope, urban planning and integration of architecture, art and Landscaping. It was developed by John D. Rockefeller, J.R. The center's original architects wereL Reinhard & Hofmeister; Hood, Godley & Foulhoux; and Corbett, Hattison & MacMurray. The original complex of 14 buildings was constructed between 1931 and 1939, and provided jobs for thousands of laborers in the building industries throughout the depression."
"The twelve buildings of Rockefeller Center constitute not only a vast skyscraper group but an organized city. The group, said to be the largest ever undertaken by private enterprise, represents the belated culmination of the boom of the 1920's." -- New York City, 1939
Book: New York City
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 333
Year Originally Published: 1939
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