Columbus Hospital / Cabrini Health Care Center — annex completion and merger phase
Two family-list entries capture the Columbus Hospital expansion at different moments.
Looking south across 20th Street at back side of closed Cabrini Medical Center on a cloudy afternoon. Photographed in 2011; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2011 · Photo: Jim.henderson · CC0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Columbus Hospital - Phase 2 — 1973
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-103
1 of two
“Columbus Hospital - Phase 2 — 1973”
The annex was half-finished in 1972 and the hospital merged into Cabrini in 1973.
The two Columbus entries, 1971 and 1973, let the site show a project progressing from controversy and construction to opening and institutional merger.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: selective masonry alteration: likely CMU/block partitions and fire-rated walls, infill or enlargement of openings, patching/rebuilding of existing masonry, and localized brick/stone work rather than the building's original structural frame.
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
Altered
Sources
2 citedOpen →
- 01newyorker.com
protest 4
- 02en.wikipedia.org
Cabrini Medical Center
- Jim.henderson · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · Taken on 1
Looking south across 20th Street at back side of closed Cabrini Medical Center on a cloudy afternoon. Photographed in 2011; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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