55 Water Street
A 1971 masonry job on what became one of the largest office buildings in the world.
55 Water Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, with its 15-story north wing, as seen from the East River. The building is the headquarters for Standard and Poors, and…. Photographed in 2010; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2010 · 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: 55 Water Street — 1971
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-090
1 of two
“55 Water Street — 1971”
55 Water Street topped out on June 18, 1971. Its 53-story tower and 15-story wing created an enormous Lower Manhattan office complex.
What Kelly did here
Family source
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.
The construction team
- 01Architect
Emery Roth & Sons
What happened to it
Still standing
Sources
2 citedOpen →
- 01
- 02en.wikipedia.org
55 Water Street
- Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2010-09-02
55 Water Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, with its 15-story north wing, as seen from the East River. The building is the headquarters for Standard and Poors, and…. Photographed in 2010; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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