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Wallace Harrison, American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (born 1895)

Wallace Harrison

Wallace Kirkman Harrison was an American architect. Harrison started his professional career with the firm of Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray, participating in the construction of Rockefeller Center. He is best known for executing large public projects in New York City and upstate, many of them the fruit of his long friendship with governor Nelson Rockefeller.

Harrison & Abramovitz

Harrison & Abramovitz was an American architectural firm based in New York and active from 1941 through 1976. The firm was a partnership of Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz.

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