[Rental plans for] 17 West 54th Street [and] 24 West 55th Street, [the Rockefeller Apartments] [graphic] : [floor plans] / Douglas Gibbons & Co. Inc., [rental agents] ; W.K. Harrison and J.A. Fouilhoux, associate architects. Jan. 17, 1936.
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Douglas Gibbons & Co, Inc.
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Harrison, Wallace K. (Wallace Kirkman), 1895-1981
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This design was completed c.1940. From the description of Wallace K. Harrison house [Huntington, Long Island, N.Y.] [graphic] : [floor plan, with notes and measurements] / [Wallace K. Harrison, architect ; drawn from memory by Hester Diamond]. [194-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 271454123 Architect; interviewee d. 1981. From the description of Oral history interview with Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 1978. (Columbia University ...
Rockefeller Apartments, 17 West 54th Street (New York, N.Y.)
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Harrison & Fouilhoux
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It is likely that this scheme was part of the Rockefeller Center plan. Rockefeller Center was one of the proposed sites for relocating the Metropolitan Opera House when preliminary schemes for the site were developed in the 1920's. Nelson Rockefeller continued to pursue this relocation until the Lincoln Center site was chosen. From the description of Scheme E & F Sixth Ave., [of the Metropolitan Opera, Sixth Avenue Plaza, New York, N.Y.] [graphic] : [rendering of a perspective vi...
Fouilhoux, Jacques André 1879-1945
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