Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute
Joseph's 1977 hospital job can now be dated almost to the day: the new Orthopaedic Institute broke ground after the last of 55 government approvals on February 3, 1977.
The Hospital for Joint Diseases, on Second Avenue at East 17th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, is a unit of the New York University Medical Center. Photographed in 2010; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2010 · Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Hospital for Joint Disease — 1977
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“Hospital for Joint Disease — 1977”
Hospital records say construction at Second Avenue and East 17th Street began February 3, 1977; the institution moved downtown in 1979.
A construction project whose consequences were not confined to the new building: moving the hospital reshaped healthcare geography in two Manhattan neighborhoods.
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
Renamed
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01med.nyu.edu
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- 02archives.med.nyu.edu
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- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Hospital for Joint Diseases.jpg
- Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2010-04-16
The Hospital for Joint Diseases, on Second Avenue at East 17th Street, in Manhattan, New York City, is a unit of the New York University Medical Center. Photographed in 2010; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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