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After more than two years of negotiating with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and local community groups, a Long Island developer has received approval for a 13-story office project on West 55th Street that will incorporate two landmark buildings on 54th Street informally known as the Rockefeller town houses.

The developer, Feldman Brothers of Lake Success, L.I., recently started construction work on the 92,250-square-foot office project at 20 West 55th Street, which will include conversion of the town houses at 13 and 15 West 54th Street to office use.

They had been owned by the Rockefeller family since the turn of the century and most recently occupied by former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, who died there.

The new office structure and the old residences will be connected by a five-story atrium, built over the courtyard that once connected the the homes and state office buildings on 55th Street. The town- houses' street facades will be unchanged, but the rear walls will be replaced with glass to provide a view of the atrium. The 13-story office building will have a light-limestone facade, gray-glass ribbon windows and a copper dome. The architect for the project, scheduled for occupancy in March 1985, is Emery Roth & Sons.