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1251 Avenue of the Americas
 

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Northeast corner from 6th Avenue - 2008-5-17 (621970)
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View from the west - 2008-5-17 (111987)
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Identification
Official name 1251 Avenue of the Americas
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Emporis Building Number 114546
NYC Building ID Number *
 
Location
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Bordering street #1 6th Avenue
Bordering street #2 West 49th Street
Bordering street #3 West 50th Street
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Complex Rockefeller Center
Neighborhood Midtown
Borough Manhattan
City New York City
State New York
Country U.S.A.
 
Technical Data
Height (tip) *
Height (struct.) 229 m 750 ft
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Floors (OG) 54
Construction start *
Construction end 1971
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Building in General
Type of construction skyscraper
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Status completed

Facts
- 1251 Avenue of the Americas was built in 1967-1971 as the second building in the Rockefeller Center Extension across Sixth Avenue, with the Exxon oil company as the main occupant.
- The first plans for the three new office towers, called the Exxon Building, McGraw-Hill Building and Celanese Building, were made in 1963 by Harrison and Abramovitz. The plan arranged the buildings around a large sunken central plaza (with entrances to the new buildings, as well as the Rockefeller Center concourse), with the centermost one placed north-south, at right angles with the established Manhattan gridline. In the realized plan, however, all the buildings were placed east-west on adjacent blocks.
- Due to the buildings' excess bulk, as opposed to the allowances given by zoning, the western ends of the plots were to be used as north-south public promenades running through each block.
- The vertical facade striping consists of narrow limestone-clad piers as vertical structural members, with a similar structural system used on the other buildings within the new complex.
- Facing Sixth Avenue, there is a sunken plaza with a large pool and fountains as well as trees and the lifelike bronze statue Out to Lunch, of the same series as the one outside the former JPMorgan Chase Tower-Union Carbide Building].
- The 54-storey Exxon building occupies the plot opposite the GE Building-RCA Building] (today GE Building), and its vertically accentuated form rises to the height of 228.5 meters, being the second-tallest building in the whole Rockefeller Center.

Companies involved in this Building*
Architect: Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris , Welton Becket and Associates

Other companies: Standard Oil Company of New York, The Rockefeller Group, George A. Fuller Company, Edwards & Hjorth, The Associated Architects [Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray,Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux,Reinhard & Hofmeister], Syska & Hennessy [Syska Hennessy Group], AK Productions LLC, Bethlehem Steel Company, UBS PaineWebber, Inc..