Empire State Plaza
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The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York.
Aerial view, looking eastward to the Hudson River
Empire State Plaza (looking northeast)
Agency Buildings 1 to 4
Corning Tower
Nelson Rockefeller
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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was the 41st vice president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford. A member of the Republican Party and the wealthy Rockefeller family,
Empire State Plaza
…York state public-benefit corporation that was created in 1979 to manage the performing arts facility in the plaza. The plaza was the idea of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who was inspired to create the new government complex after Princess (later Queen) Beatrix of the Netherlands visited Albany for a celebration of the…
Official portrait, 1975
Rockefeller (top row, third from right) with other members of the Dartmouth Pictorial staff, 1928
Rockefeller as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs in 1940
Rockefeller, Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, makes a presentation on a proposed public/private health reinsurance program in 1954.