Herbert Irving Pavilion / former Atchley Pavilion — Doctors Office Building
Columbia’s own archival language identifies the Herbert Irving Pavilion as the former Doctors’ Office Building, closely matching Rita’s wording.
The Herbert Irving Pavilion (foreground), located at 161 Fort Washington Avenue at West 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1968. (Source:…. Photographed in 2014; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2014 · Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Doctors Office Building - Columbia Pres — 1967
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-053
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“Doctors Office Building - Columbia Pres — 1967”
The Doctors' Office Building opened in 1968; contract and finance files span the period including Joseph's 1967 work year.
A major Columbia-Presbyterian campus project with unusually strong archival documentation of its original name and construction period.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: most likely CMU/concrete-block partitions, shafts, stair/elevator enclosures and other fire-rated/service walls; exterior brick or masonry backup is also plausible where the hospital addition used a masonry facade.
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
Still standing
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Washington Heights, New York, NY
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu
who it named
- 02library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu
columbia university irving medical center construction chronology 1925 present
- 03library-archives.cumc.columbia.edu
PH Secretary's Office web version
- Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Taken on 4
The Herbert Irving Pavilion (foreground), located at 161 Fort Washington Avenue at West 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1968. (Source:…. Photographed in 2014; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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