Fifth to Sixth Avenues, West 48th to 51st
Streets
The world's largest privately owned business complex—19 buildings
on
22 acres—was built in the Art Deco style (1932–40), personified
by
the famous sculpture of Atlas upholding the world that marks the
soaring GE Building (originally the RCA Building). A consortium of
architects worked on the complex with developer John D. Rockefeller.
National Historic Landmark 1987. N.Y.C. Landmark April 23, 1985.
