The following text and images are by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson, for The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York.

Much like the first Glass Center at the 1939 Worlds' Fair, the Corning Glass Center and Steuben Factory building in Corning, New York, built by the architect Wallace Harrison in 1951 represented a certain optimism about the future of industry and culture. These buildings represented the "best in architectural design" in their time and the Glass Center and Steuben Factory as we know them, remain to this day, landmarks of American architectural history.