The Times Square Building is an

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

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Ralph Thomas Walker Ralph Thomas Walker FAIA (November 28, 1889 – January 17, 1973) was an American architect, president of the American Institute of Architects and partner of the firm McKenzie, Voorhees, Gmelin; and its successor firms Voorhees, Gmelin & W ...

of the firm Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker located in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, ...

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. At , it is the eighth-tallest building in Rochester, with 14

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. The former Genesee Valley Trust Building is a streamlined twelve-story building supporting four aluminum wings high, known as the "Wings of Progress", each weighing . These structures are among the most distinctive features of the Rochester skyline. The trompe-l’oeil style is used for the decor throughout the building's interior and features various depictions of stylized wheat in reference to Rochester's presence as " the flour city". The building originally hosted a

Depression era The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagio ...

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by Carl William Peters (1897-1980) on exhibit from its opening that was later destroyed. The

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of this

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was laid on October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" of the

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