1948Woodside, Queens, New YorkResidential

NYCHA Woodside Houses

One of the earliest entries on the list, showing Joseph working on the enormous postwar transformation of New York before the famous corporate and cultural projects appear.

Woodside Houses. Photographed in 2019; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.

Current view · 2019 · Photo: Rayvxp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

01The story

Why this project matters

Project identity: Verified
Kelly connection: Family source
Masonry scope: Strong

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: Woodside Houses — 1948

Transcription: Woodside Houses — 1948

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-005

Sheet

1 of two

As written

“Woodside Houses — 1948”

Woodside Houses was part of New York City's postwar public-housing boom. Municipal Archives project files date from 1947–1950, and the development was completed in 1949, making the framed 1948 date an active construction year.

Why it matters

One of the earliest entries on the list, showing Joseph working on the enormous postwar transformation of New York before the famous corporate and cultural projects appear.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Strong

Extensive exterior red-brick masonry across the Woodside Houses buildings, plus likely interior CMU/block shafts, stairs, service and fire-separation walls typical of the development.

This scope is recorded as strong, not documented. It is a disciplined reading of the building and the trade practice of the period, not a contract-level record of Kelly’s work.

03Who built it