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| name = General Electric Building | nrhp_type = nrhp | image = General Electric Building 570 Lexington.jpg | caption = with St. Bartholomew's Church in the foreground (2010) | location= 570 Lexington Avenue Manhattan, New York City | coordinates = {{coord|40|45|26|N|73|58|20|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = United States Manhattan#New York City | built = 1929–1931[1] | architect = John W. Cross of Cross & Cross | architecture = Art Deco | added = January 28, 2004 | governing_body = private | refnum = 03001515[1] | designated_other2_name = NYC Landmark | designated_other2_date = July 9, 1985 | designated_other2_abbr = NYCL | designated_other2_link = New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission | designated_other2_number = | designated_other2_color = #ffe978 }} The General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue, is a historic 50-floor, {{Convert|640|ft|m||adj=on}}-tall, skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street).[2] 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 the "Comcast Building". The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1985,[3] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 2004.[1][4] It is the 99th tallest building in New York. HistoryAt the time that RCA Victor commissioned this building, it was a subsidiary of General Electric. The company then moved its headquarters to Rockefeller Center, and this building was deeded over to the parent company.[3] The building was donated to Columbia University in 1993 to gain a $40 million tax deduction.[3][5] The university formed a joint venture with Mendik Company and Quantum Realty Partners and refurbished the building in 1994.[6] Mendik bought out Columbia in 2001.[7] Tower 570 Company, LP, an affiliate of The Feil Organization, is the building's current owner.[8] ArchitectureThe building's 50-floor stylized Gothic octagonal brick tower, with elaborate Art Deco decorations of lightning bolts showing the power of electricity, grows out of the round-cornered base with elaborate masonry and architectural figural sculpture, to form "one of the most expressive skyscrapers of its era."[3] The building was designed to blend with the low Byzantine dome of St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue and shares the same brick color, with terra cotta decorations chosen to coordinate. 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. On the corner above the building's main entrance is a clock with the cursive GE logo and a pair of disembodied silver arms holding bolts of electricity.[3] The AIA Guide to New York City says that the building's "Art Deco details at both street and sky are both sumptuous and exuberant."[9] A "major example" of Art Deco architecture, the style is "both symbolic and expressive of the building's function," according to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.[10] After the building was donated to Columbia University, it was extensively renovated by Ernest de Castro of the WCA Design Group.[3] In popular culture
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ReferencesNotes1. ^1 {{NRISref|2009a}} Further reading2. ^{{cite web |title=570 Lexington Avenue |url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=570lexingtonavenuenue-newyorkcity-ny-usa |publisher=Emporis.com |accessdate=2008-07-12}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite nycland}}, p.119 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://architecturaltrust.org/~architec/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2010_0617_respondent_motion_partial_summary_judgment.pdf|title=Tower 570 Company, L.P., Broadwell Investing Corp., Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue|last=|first=|date=July 17, 2010|website=architecturaltrust.org|publisher=Internal Revenue Service|page=2|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=September 6, 2018}} 5. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/03/nyregion/ge-gives-midtown-tower-to-columbia-university.html|title=G.E. Gives Midtown Tower To Columbia University|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=June 3, 1993|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 6, 2018|language=en}} 6. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/realestate/streetscapes-570-lexington-avenue-columbia-s-restoring-an-art-deco-masterpiece.html |title=Streetscapes/570 Lexington Avenue; Columbia's Restoring an Art Deco Masterpiece|last=Gray|first=Christopher|date=January 15, 1995|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 6, 2018|language=en}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.wikicu.com/General_Electric_Building|title=General Electric Building - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia|website=www.wikicu.com|language=en|access-date=2017-11-18}} 8. ^{{Cite news|url=https://therealdeal.com/new-research/topics/property/570-lexington-avenue/|title=570 Lexington Avenue|work=The Real Deal New York|access-date=2017-11-18|language=en-US}} 9. ^{{cite aia5}}, p.318 10. ^Savage, Charles C. (July 9, 1985) "General Electric Building Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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