NYCHA Marlboro Houses
Joseph helped build a red-brick public-housing complex now considered architecturally significant.
Looking west from West 8th Street, north of Avenue X, at NYCHA Marlboro Houses on a sunny midday. Photographed in 2009; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2009 · Photo: Jim.henderson · Public domain · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: Marlboro Houses — 1956
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-024
1 of two
“Marlboro Houses — 1956”
Marlboro Houses was completed in 1958 to designs by Harrison & Abramovitz; Joseph's 1956 date fits active construction.
The red-brick masonry is central to the architecture, and the project is now considered historically significant rather than simply utilitarian public housing.
Research pass v0.9 — Verified. | v3.6.12 photo selected and staged: KM-024_Marlboro_Houses_current.jpg
What Kelly did here
Family source
Strong
Extensive exterior red-brick masonry across the residential and community buildings, plus interior CMU/block shafts, stairs, service and fire-separation walls typical of the complex.
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
- 01Architect
Harrison & Abramovitz
What happened to it
Still standing
18 Avenue V / 2740 86th Street area, Brooklyn, NY 11223
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01nyc.gov
nycha section 106 programmatic agreement
- 02en.wikipedia.org
Marlboro Houses
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Marlboro NYCHA jeh.JPG
- Jim.henderson · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · 2009-05-20
Looking west from West 8th Street, north of Avenue X, at NYCHA Marlboro Houses on a sunny midday. Photographed in 2009; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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