1984Hempstead, New YorkCommercial

Travelers Financial Center

A Peter Eisenman office building whose geometry came from the skewed relationship of Long Island parkways.

From Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: Travelers Financial Center, Hempstead — 1984

No building photograph is currently assigned.

01The story

Why this project matters

Project identity
Verified
Kelly connection
Family source
Masonry scope
Probable

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: Travelers Financial Center, Hempstead — 1984

Transcription: Travelers Financial Center, Hempstead — 1984

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-170

Sheet

2 of two

As written

Travelers Financial Center, Hempstead — 1984

CCA dates the executed Travelers Financial Center project to 1983–86, perfectly matching Joseph's 1984 entry.

Why it matters

One of the architecturally strangest projects on the list — and the CCA holds an unusually deep archive of drawings.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Probable

Likely: most likely interior CMU/block shafts, service cores, fire-rated partitions and masonry backup; exterior brickwork is likely only if the project-specific facade was brick rather than stone, precast, metal or glass.

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.

03Who built it

The construction team

  1. 01Architect

    Eisenman/Robertson Architects; Trott and Bean Architects

04What happened

What happened to it

Still standing / reused

Still standing / reused

Sources

2 citedOpen →
What this record rests on
  1. 01
    cca.qc.ca

    travelers financial center

  2. 02
    usmodernist.org

    PA 1987 03

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