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.
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
2 citedOpen →
- 01nyc.gov
nycha section 106 programmatic agreement
- 02en.wikipedia.org
Marlboro Houses
- 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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