Community Hospital at Dobbs Ferry — new hospital construction (family notation 'Phase D')
Joseph's 1986 'Community Hospital' job is almost certainly the new hospital being built in Dobbs Ferry.
The Dobbs Ferry hospital entrance as it stands today — a current view, not a construction-period photograph of the 1980s work Rita's list records.
Undated · Image: St. John’s Riverside Hospital · Reuse terms not verified. · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: Community Hospital - Phase D — 1986
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-187
2 of two
“Community Hospital - Phase D — 1986”
Financing was approved in 1984; construction finished in early 1987; the $15 million, 50-bed hospital opened that June.
A superb full-lifecycle card: old community hospital → Joseph-era replacement → threatened closure → community fight → continued reuse.
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 / renamed
The 1987 hospital survives as St. John's Riverside Hospital's Dobbs Ferry Pavilion at 128 Ashford Avenue.
Sources
1 citedOpen →
- 01riversidehealth.org
history
- Unattributed · Rights unclear / source retained · St. John’s Riverside Hospital
The Dobbs Ferry hospital entrance as it stands today — a current view, not a construction-period photograph of the 1980s work Rita's list records.
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