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.

Why it matters

Rita's 1957 date catches 660 Madison Avenue during construction of the Getty Building, a limestone-and-glass postwar tower that later evolved into luxury retail, offices and residences. The entry preserves the building at the moment it was remaking Madison Avenue.

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