A Life Built in New York
1967Manhattan, New YorkEducation

Collegiate School — Platten Hall (former campus)

A 1967 construction job for one of the oldest schools in the United States.

Collegiate School — Platten Hall (former campus) — Old site of church school, now being replaced by a residential building. Collegiate Church in background. Photographed in 2020; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.

Old site of church school, now being replaced by a residential building. Collegiate Church in background. Photographed in 2020; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.

Current view · 2020 · Photo: Jim.henderson · CC BY 4.0 · 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: Collegiate School — 1967

Transcription: Collegiate School — 1967

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-050

Sheet

1 of two

As written

“Collegiate School — 1967”

LPC identifies the school as New Building application NB 127-1965, built from 1965–67 by Ballard Todd Associates—the exact endpoint on Joseph's list.

Why it matters

The city record gives us an exact filed building number and a full lifecycle: new school → enlargement → historic-district context → eventual demolition/replacement.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Probable

Likely: most likely CMU/concrete-block classroom, corridor, service and fire-rated walls, with exterior brick/block wall systems where the school/library used masonry cladding.

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

The construction team

  1. 01Architect

    Ballard Todd Associates

04What happened

What happened to it

Demolished

On the map

260 West 78th Street, New York, NY 10024

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Demolished
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Sources

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What this record rests on
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  2. 02
    newyorkyimby.com

    west end collegiate church to create new residential presence at 378 west end av

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Image credits
  • Jim.henderson · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2020-02-09

    Old site of church school, now being replaced by a residential building. Collegiate Church in background. Photographed in 2020; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.

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