1971Garden City, New YorkCommercial

Bloomingdale's Garden City — Franklin Avenue store

A 1971 Bloomingdale's job designed by one of America's best-known modern architects.

The store building itself, photographed after its conversion to medical use.

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01The story

Why this project matters

Project identity: Verified
Kelly connection: Family source
Masonry scope: Probable

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: Bloomingdale's - Garden City — 1971

Transcription: Bloomingdale's - Garden City — 1971

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-091

Sheet

1 of two

As written

“Bloomingdale's - Garden City — 1971”

Edward Durell Stone lists the Garden City Bloomingdale's among his 1971 projects; the store opened the following year.

Why it matters

A strong lifestyle/history card: the same architect behind major monuments was designing a suburban Bloomingdale's while Joseph's crew was laying masonry.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

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.

03Who built it