New York Yacht Club, 44th Street Clubhouse
By 1987, Kelly was working on one of New York’s great Beaux-Arts clubhouses.
The New York Yacht Club Building at 37-41 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York, seen in October 2022. Photographed in 2022; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
Current view · 2022 · Photo: Epicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Family source
- Masonry scope
- Probable
Rita’s list
Transcription: New York Yacht Club - W. 44 Street — 1987
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-191
2 of two
“New York Yacht Club - W. 44 Street — 1987”
The 44th Street clubhouse was designed by Whitney Warren and completed in 1901. Its famous projecting windows resemble ship sterns, and the Model Room became the building’s symbolic heart.
Most likely selective interior masonry alteration/restoration—CMU/backing, openings/infill, localized brick/stone support and service-area work. The later 1992 exterior stone restoration is a separate campaign, so Kelly should not be credited with the clubhouse's carved limestone façade absent direct records.
What Kelly did here
Family source
Probable
Likely: likely selective interior masonry alteration/restoration—opening/infill work, localized brick/stone repair, CMU partitions/backing or support conditions—rather than the later 1992 exterior stone restoration. Do not attribute the famous carved limestone façade to Kelly without period restoration records.
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
Warren & Wetmore / Whitney Warren (original building)
What happened to it
Landmarked
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01nyyc.org
clubhouses
- 02nyyc.org
44th st. club house
- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:W 44 St Oct 2022 75.jpg
- Epicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2022-10-27
The New York Yacht Club Building at 37-41 West 44th Street in Manhattan, New York, seen in October 2022. Photographed in 2022; a current view, not a construction-period photograph.
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