 It was built in 1928–29 and was designed in Art Deco style by Ely Jacques Kahn of the firm of Buchman & Kahn.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.The Film Center's first-floor interior, highlighted by Kahn's "highly individualistic version of the Art Deco style", which shows pre-Columbian influences, was designated a New York City landmark in 1982.