Princess Gardens — Lincoln Square Title I housing
Princess Gardens was one of the residential buildings created by the same urban-renewal machine that produced Lincoln Center.
Shows a picture of buildings and people on the sidewalk. Photographed in 1956.
1956 · Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Princess Gardens — 1960
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-034
1 of two
“Princess Gardens — 1960”
Architectural history describes Princess Gardens as a single building within the Lincoln Square Title I development, alongside Lincoln Towers.
This is almost the thesis of the whole archive: Joseph helped construct the 'new New York' that replaced another New York people had called home.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: most likely exterior brick masonry where present, plus CMU/block shafts, stairs, service walls, party/fire-separation walls and masonry backup.
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.
The construction team
The construction team for this job has not yet been established.
What happened to it
Exact surviving building/parcel name unresolved
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01s3.amazonaws.com
Ballon Jackson Robert Moses and the Modern City
- 02urresearch.rochester.edu
fileDownloadForInstitutionalItem.action
- 03slideshare.net
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- Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · 1956-05-28
Shows a picture of buildings and people on the sidewalk. Photographed in 1956.
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