St. Albans Naval Hospital — postwar permanent expansion
A former Queens golf course became one of the Navy's great wartime hospital campuses.
St. Albans Naval Hospital, Jamaica, New York, photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner in 1954, in the era of the postwar expansion.
1954 · Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Library of Congress, no known copyright restrictions · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: St. Albans Naval Hospital — 1949
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“St. Albans Naval Hospital — 1949”
The postwar build-out continued through 1950, matching Joseph's 1949 work year.
The site moved from golf course to wartime hospital to permanent veterans' health campus — three radically different New York landscapes on the same ground.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Strong
Substantial exterior brick masonry and trim on the postwar permanent St. Albans Naval Hospital buildings, plus likely interior CMU/block service, ward, stair/shaft and fire-separation walls.
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.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Altered
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01nan.usace.army.mil
Final Draft EA for Public Release Jan 2017 with appendices
- 02en.wikipedia.org
St. Albans, Queens
- 03va.gov
st albans va medical center
- Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Public domain · Library of Congress, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · 1954
St. Albans Naval Hospital, Jamaica, New York, photographed by Gottscho-Schleisner in 1954, in the era of the postwar expansion.
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