RCA Building, Midtown Manhattan

Photograph shows the Rockefeller Center with the RCA Building in the center of the picture, looking north from near 48th Street, New York City. Photo dated February 3, 1936. Source: Records of the Army Air Forces, National Archives at College Park, MD.

The RCA Building (now 30 Rockefeller Plaza), located between West 49th and W50th streets in Midtown Manhattan, was built between 1931 and 1933. It was designed by Reinhard & Hofmeister, Corbett Harrison & MacMurray and Hood & Fouilhou. In 1986, General Electric incorporated RCA.

The 1 Rockefeller Plaza office building, located between 48th and 49th streets, began to be constructed in the same year of 1936 and it was completed in 1937.