7 Hanover Square (now 100 Pearl Street / 50 Water Street complex)
Joseph helped build a 1982 red-brick office tower on a block where archaeology uncovered colonial and early Federal New York—including property once associated with Captain William Kidd.
7 Hanover Square / 50 Water Street photographed in 2018, after the complex was extensively transformed.
Current view · 2018 · Photo: Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Corroborated
- Masonry scope
- Strong
Rita’s list
Transcription: 7 Hanover Square — 1982
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
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“7 Hanover Square — 1982”
LPC preserves a multi-volume archaeological study of the Seven Hanover Square block, plus a mortar analysis of foundation ruins found during development.
A rare chance to tell masonry history vertically: colonial foundation ruins below, Joseph-era red brick above, and a 21st-century office transformation layered onto both.
What Kelly did here
Corroborated
Strong
Very likely the red-brick exterior masonry/turret wall package plus CMU backup and interior service masonry; limestone-like lintels may have been a separate specialty component.
This scope is recorded as strong, 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.
Robert Massina, principal/president of Kelly Masonry, lists 7 Hanover Square among Kelly projects in his professional profile. This is company-affiliated retrospective corroboration, not a period subcontract.
The construction team
- 01Owner / client
Seven Hanover Associates
- 02Architect
Norman Jaffe, design architect; Emery Roth & Sons
- 03GC / construction manager
Lehrer-McGovern
- 04Masonry
Kelly Masonry
What happened to it
Still standing / extensively transformed
The former 7 Hanover Square now operates primarily as 100 Pearl Street / 50 Water Street after a major renovation that added new lobbies, infrastructure, retail expansion and rooftop/penthouse space. NYC Health + Hospitals is a major tenant; new retail/amenity tenants continue to open. NYC continues to treat the building's publicly accessible indoor POPS as part of Lower Manhattan's public-space network.
7 Hanover Square / 100 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10004
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01a860-gpp.nyc.gov
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- 02api.pageplace.de
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- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Water St Coenties Slip td (2018 08 09) 14 7 Hanover Square.jpg
- Tdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Taken on 9
7 Hanover Square / 50 Water Street photographed in 2018, after the complex was extensively transformed.
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