Radio City Music Hall Center. The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and interior designer Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Stone used Indiana Limestone for the facade, as with all the other buildings in Rockefeller Center, but he also included some distinguishing features. Three signs with the hall's name on it were placed on the facade, while intricately ornamented fire escapes were installed on the walls facing 50th and 51st Streets. Inside, Stone designed Grand Foyer with a large staircase, balconies, and mirrors, and commissioned Ezra Winter for the grand foyer's mural, "Quest for the Fountain of
The Town Hall (New York City) States and twelve cities on three continents. It won numerous awards. Recordings of "America's Town Meeting of the Air", from 1935 to 1952, are preserved at the United States' National Archives' Donated Historical Materials collection, the catalog number of which is "DM.13". The organizational records (archives) of Town Hall, Inc. and "America's Town Meeting of the Air", 1895–1955, are held by the Manuscripts and Archives Division of The New York Public Library. The Town Hall was owned by New York University for twenty years beginning in 1958. The outstanding acoustic properties of Town Hall for musical performance — which some