1251 Avenue of the Americas, formerly the Exxon Building, is a 54-story office tower on Sixth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. Wallace Harrison designed it, and Mitsui Fudosan owns it. The infobox lists the style as New Formalism, while the text calls it international style. The facade alternates narrow vertical stripes of glass and limestone, with no ornamentation.
Construction ran from 1965 to 1968, with opening in 1971. The infobox gives completion as 1968, while the text says it was the first completed, in 1971. The roof is 750 feet (230 m) high and the floor area is about 2,101,115 square feet (195,200 m²), with 36 elevators.
A sunken plaza with a two-tier pool and fountains faces Sixth Avenue, and holds John Seward Johnson II's bronze Out to Lunch. Exxon sold the building in 1986 for $610 million. It received LEED Silver certification for existing buildings in May 2013.
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