Christ Hospital — Tower Building / medical office expansion
A Jersey City hospital expansion whose state records date the main tower to exactly 1978.
Looking north at Christ Hospital, 176 Palisade Avenue on a mostly cloudy midday. 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: Christ Hospital - Jersey City — 1978
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-126
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“Christ Hospital - Jersey City — 1978”
Christ Hospital's Tower Building dates to 1978; its medical office building dates to 1977/78.
The state building inventory gives us unusually exact construction dates for the hospital's 1978 expansion.
Research pass v1.0 — Verified. | v3.6.12 photo selected and staged: KM-126_Christ_Hospital_Tower_Building_medical_office_expansion.jpg
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
Still standing
Sources
2 citedOpen →
- 01nj.gov
Hudson County Hospital Services Consolidation Regionalization Assessment Report
- 02commons.wikimedia.org
File:Christ Hospital 176 Palisade Av JC jeh.jpg
- Jim.henderson · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2011-06-04
Looking north at Christ Hospital, 176 Palisade Avenue on a mostly cloudy midday. Photographed in 2011; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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