Collegiate School — Platten Hall (former campus)
A 1967 construction job for one of the oldest schools in the United States.
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
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Collegiate School — 1967
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-050
1 of two
“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.
The city record gives us an exact filed building number and a full lifecycle: new school → enlargement → historic-district context → eventual demolition/replacement.
What Kelly did here
Family source
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.
The construction team
- 01Architect
Ballard Todd Associates
What happened to it
Demolished
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01collegiateschool.org
timeline
- 02newyorkyimby.com
west end collegiate church to create new residential presence at 378 west end av
- 03s-media.nyc.gov
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- 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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