1958Manhattan, New YorkCommercial

660 Madison Avenue (Getty Building)

A J. Paul Getty office tower completed the same year Joseph worked there.

Madison Fund Inc., 660 Madison Ave., New York. Photographed in 1959.

1959 · Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection · Public domain · Source

01The story

Why this project matters

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

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: 660 Madison Ave. — 1958

Transcription: 660 Madison Ave. — 1958

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-029

Sheet

1 of two

As written

“660 Madison Ave. — 1958”

660 Madison Avenue opened in 1958 as the Getty Building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Probable

Likely: most likely interior CMU/block shafts, service cores, fire-rated partitions and masonry backup; exterior brickwork is likely only if the project-specific facade was brick rather than stone, precast, metal or glass.

This scope is recorded as probable, 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