Construction
The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building. In tune with the times, the architects Walker & Gillette included many art deco features in the interior and exterior decoration of the building. As Christopher Gray wrote in The New York Times, "It was built in 1929 as a jazz-age testament to the emerging commercial chic of 57th Street." As contractors, Fuller Construction went on to erect the United Nations complex, Lever House and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington.
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