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title: "Rockefeller Center, New York — GetMap"
description: "It was meant to be an opera house. The original scheme called for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, but the Depression overturned it. John D…"
source: https://getmap.travel/quests/ChIJ9U1mz_5YwokRosza1aAk0jM
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# Rockefeller Center

It was meant to be an opera house

History · 🇺🇸 New York · one place, one stop

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The original scheme called for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera, but the Depression overturned it. John D. Rockefeller Jr. instead developed a 22-acre complex of 19 commercial buildings, linked by a sunken plaza and crowned by the limestone-clad tower at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

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