This article is about the former Genesee Valley Trust Building in Rochester, New York. For the building in New York City, New York, see The Times Square Building. For other buildings named Times Square Building, see Times Square Building (disambiguation).
Detail of building showing "The Wings of Progress"
The Times Square Building is an Art Decoskyscraper designed by Ralph Thomas Walker of the firm Voorhees, Gmelin, and Walker located in Rochester, New York, United States. At 260 feet (79 m), it is the eighth-tallest building in Rochester, with 14 floors.
The former Genesee Valley Trust Building is a streamlined twelve-story building supporting four aluminum wings 42 feet (13 m) high, known as the "Wings of Progress",[1] each weighing 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg). These structures are among the most distinctive features of the Rochester skyline.[2] 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 eramural by Carl William Peters (1897-1980) on exhibit from its opening that was later destroyed.[3]
