The College of Insurance, 101 Murray Street
Joseph helped build the insurance industry's purpose-built college — and thirty years later the entire school building was demolished for a luxury condo tower.
101 Murray Street — built for the College of Insurance, later St. John's University's Manhattan campus — photographed in 2010. The building has since been demolished.
2010 · Photo: Jim Henderson · CC0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: College of Insurance — 1983
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-167
2 of two
“College of Insurance — 1983”
The College of Insurance's ten-story Murray Street building contained classrooms, conference rooms, computer labs, a cafeteria, residences and a major insurance library.
A remarkably complete city-cycle card: an institution finally gets the building it always wanted, uses it for only a few decades, and the land becomes more valuable than the building.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: likely concealed CMU/block backup, shafts, stair/service/fire-rated walls and localized masonry—not the principal visible exterior, which the AIA Guide describes as pink precast panels.
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
- 01Architect
Haines Lundberg Waehler
What happened to it
Demolished; replaced by 111 Murray Street condominium tower
The former College of Insurance site is now 111 Murray Street, a 60-story luxury condominium tower completed in 2018.
Sources
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- 01stjohns.edu
manhattan campus history
- 02stjohns.edu
125 years risk leadership
- 03api.pageplace.de
preview 9780199772919 A23609576
- 04usmodernist.org
I 1986 07
- Jim Henderson · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2010
101 Murray Street — built for the College of Insurance, later St. John's University's Manhattan campus — photographed in 2010. The building has since been demolished.
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