Wallace H. Harrison with model of Metropolitan Opera House interior

Creator

Louis Melançon

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Creation Date

1960

Description

Wallace H. Harrison with model of Metropolitan Opera House interior, late 1960s. Photo by Louis Melançon

In 1954, The Rockefeller Institute became The Rockefeller University, requiring new buildings to house a graduate student’s residence hall, executive offices, rooms for visiting professors, a lecture hall, a residence for the president, and a new laboratory building. By then, Wallace K. Harrison, the prominent New York architect, was so closely associated with the Rockefeller family’s building program that it was a matter of course for David Rockefeller to ask him to undertake the project. The result is “a distinctive place, a serene and bucolic academic enclave in the midst of the city.”