Barclays Bank of New York — 300 Park Avenue alteration
A repeat Barclays client, explicitly labeled an alteration.
The Colgate-Palmolive Building at 300 Park Avenue between East 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City was completed in 1955 and was designed by Emery Roth & Sons in the…. Photographed in 2012; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2012 · Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Very strong
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Barclay Bank Alteration — 1980
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-145
2 of two
“Barclay Bank Alteration — 1980”
The wording makes clear this was not a new bank building, but the 1980 location remains unresolved.
An alteration project inside a prominent Park Avenue office building during Barclays Bank of New York’s expansion era.
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
- 01Owner / client
Barclays Bank of New York
- 02Architect
Emery Roth & Sons (base building); tenant alteration architect unresolved
- 03GC / construction manager
300 Park Avenue landlord/Uris construction-management records; exact 1980 GC/trade chain unresolved
What happened to it
Still standing / office building
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01columbia.edu
ldpd.6033444.001b
- 02usbanklocations.com
barclays bank of new york 20399.shtml
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Colgate Palmolive Building 300 Park Avenue.jpg
- Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2012-08-04
The Colgate-Palmolive Building at 300 Park Avenue between East 49th and 50th Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City was completed in 1955 and was designed by Emery Roth & Sons in the…. Photographed in 2012; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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