1935 - Architecture, Real Estate

Architecture, Real Estate

The League of Nations moves into a gleaming white $6 million palace completed for the League at Geneva.

The 41-story International Building at 630 Fifth Avenue opens in New York's Rockefeller Center in May.

The U.S. Supreme Court moves from its chamber in the Capitol building to a dazzling white Vermont marble building of its own designed by the late New York architect Cass Gilbert. Erected on a site occupied by the Old Capitol Prison that housed Confederate prisoners of war in the 1860s, the structure has a single courtroom chamber that seats 300 spectators.

Williamsburg, Va., regains its colonial splendor after 8 years of reconstruction funded by a $94.9 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. Boston architect William G. Perry, 52, has supervised the work of restoring 40 buildings on a 178-acre site (see 1699).

The first U.S. public housing project opens December 3 on New York's Lower East Side, where a row of tenements owned by Vincent Astor at 3rd Street and Avenue A has been demolished. Gov. Herbert Lehman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mayor La Guardia attend the opening of the eight-building complex built by the City Housing Authority (CHA) that was founded in February of last year with a promised grant of $25 million. In the next 40 years the CHA will build 228 projects with 167,000 apartments to house 560,000 persons; other cities will build similar projects.