Question: Which was built first the Time Warner Center or the Woolworth Building?

The Majestic Theatre was a theatre located at 5 Columbus Circle, the present site of the Time Warner Center.  Designed in 1903 by John H. Duncan, the architect of Grant's Tomb, it was built at a time that Columbus Circle was expected to become a theatre district.  Initially, the theatre, which seated about 1355, hosted original musicals and operettas, including "The Wizard of Oz" and "Babes in Toyland", and some plays.  It was renamed Park Theatre in 1911, opening with "The Quaker Girl", and it again presented plays, musicals and operettas.  The Shuberts, Florenz Ziegfeld and Billy Minsky, in succession, owned the house but did not find success there.  In 1925, it was purchased by William Randolph Hearst, renamed Cosmopolitan Theatre, and played movies as well as live theatre.  During the period it was used as a playhouse, its last name was amended to include International Theatre. <SEP> 75 Rockefeller Plaza is a skyscraper in New York City, originally built as an extension to Rockefeller Center.  It was completed in 1947 in early Modernist style.  It was originally the Esso Building, built for the Standard Oil Company (Esso).  At completion it was the tallest completely air-conditioned building in New York City, and the first one in Rockefeller Center.  After Standard Oil's successor, Exxon, moved to the newly built 1251 Avenue of the Americas, the building became known as the Time Warner Building, after the Time Warner media conglomerate, until they moved to the Time Warner Center.  It is owned by Mohamed Al Fayed and managed and leased by RXR Realty. <SEP>  The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million. The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is an early US skyscraper.  By January 18, 1911, Woolworth and Hogan had acquired the final site for the project, totaling $4.5 million.  More than a century after its construction, it remains, at 241.4 m , one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as well as one of the 30 tallest buildings in New York City.  It has been a National Historic Landmark since 1966, and a New York City landmark since 1983. <SEP>  Developed by The Related Companies and AREA Property Partners (formerly known as Apollo Real Estate Advisors), its design by David Childs and Mustafa Kemal Abadan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, consists of two 750 ft twin towers bridged by a multi-story atrium containing upscale retail shops.  Construction began in November 2000, following the demolition of the New York Coliseum, and a topping-out ceremony was held on February 27, 2003.  The property had the highest-listed market value in New York City, $1.1 billion, in 2006.  Originally constructed as the AOL Time Warner Center, the building encircles the western side of Columbus Circle and straddles the border between Midtown and the Upper West Side.  The total floor area of 2.8 e6ft2 is occupied by office space (notably the offices of Time Warner and an R&D Center for VMware), residential condominiums, and the Mandarin Oriental, New York hotel.  The Shops at Columbus Circle is an upscale shopping mall located in a curving arcade at the base of the building, with a large Whole Foods Market grocery store on the lower level. Time Warner Center is a mixed use (office/commercial and residential) twin-tower building in New York City.