Built 1931 Designated NYCL July 9, 1985 Floors 50 Area 3,642 m² Added to NRHP 28 January 2004 | NRHP Reference # 03001515 Height 196 m Opened 1931 Architectural style Art Deco | |
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Location 570 Lexington Ave., New York, New York Similar Chrysler Building, American Radiator Building, Chanin Building, Daily News Building, 731 Lexington Avenue | ||
Crews begin demolition of general electric building in fort wayne
The General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue, is a historic 50-floor, 640-foot (200 m)-tall, skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States, at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street). Originally known as the RCA Victor Building when designed in 1931 by John W. Cross of Cross & Cross, it is sometimes known by its address to avoid confusion with the much later renaming, in 1988, of the RCA Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as the 'GE Building', itself later renamed 'Comcast Building'.
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Map of General Electric Building, 570 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA
The building backs up to the low Byzantine dome of St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue and shares the same brick color. It is a 50-floor stylized Gothic tower, with elaborate Art Deco decoration of lightning bolts showing the power of electricity. The base contains elaboratem masonry, architectural figural sculpture, and on the corner above the main entrance, a corner clock with the cursive GE logo and a pair of silver disembodied forearms. The crown of the building is an example of Gothic tracery, which is intended to represent electricity and radio waves, and is lit from within at night.