One Rockefeller Plaza (New York, NY) : 49th Street Entrance; "Progress" by Lee Lawrie, 1937, overall view

Creator:

Hood, Raymond M., 1881-1934
Lawrie, Lee Oskar, 1877-1961
Piccirilli, Attilio, 1866-1945

Published/Created:

1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York, United States
1932-1937

Physical Description:

608,000 ft2 (area)

Date Depicted:

6/14/2011

Materials:

Indiana limestone; gilding

Notes:

This was the original Time- Life Building, before the publishing company moved west to 1271 Avenue of the Americas. An original tenant was General Dynamics, for whom the building was briefly named. The large wooden sculptures by Carl Milles on the west wall of its lobby feature a woodsman in the middle piece of the triptych, above which a mechanical bird chirps every hour. The original bird was a clarino, or Mexican thrush, that belonged to Bronx Zoo president Fairfield Osborn. NBC engineers were dispatched to Osborn’s house on East Sixty-First Street to record the clarino’s singing for posterity.

Variant Titles:

Time-Life Building

Topics:

Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Art Deco
Twentieth century

Culture:

American

Accession Number:

1A1-RH-RC-T26

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
office buildings (AAT)
skyscrapers (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers; buildings; office buildings

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Addition Module Eight

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
6/14/2011 12:00:00 AM

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2013; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4654

OID:

10897065

PID:

digcoll:1827877