Mount Sinai Medical Center — Guggenheim Pavilion Phase II construction
Joseph appears to have worked on Mount Sinai twice during the same six-year megaproject.
The Guggenheim Pavilion as completed; the same physical building as the 1987 record, photographed long after both construction phases.
Current view · 2021 · Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 · Source
Why this project matters
- Project identity
- Verified
- Kelly connection
- Documented
- Masonry scope
- Documented
Rita’s list
Transcription: Mt. Sinai Medical Center — 1990
Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record
KM-201
2 of two
“Mt. Sinai Medical Center — 1990”
Phase II of Guggenheim Pavilion was still under construction in 1990 and did not finish until 1992.
The two Mount Sinai entries now appear to capture different moments in the same enormous multi-year reconstruction.
What Kelly did here
Documented
Documented
Hand-laid brick masonry / brick wall systems and associated block/backup masonry at Mount Sinai's Guggenheim Pavilion. Do not attribute the limestone setting to Kelly.
Published project credits explicitly list Kelly Masonry Corp. under Masonry.
The construction team
- 01Owner / client
The Mount Sinai Medical Center
- 02Architect
I. M. Pei / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
- 03GC / construction manager
Morse/Diesel Inc. (owner's construction consultant); Turner Construction (estimator)
- 04Masonry
Kelly Masonry
What happened to it
Still standing
Guggenheim Pavilion remains a central Mount Sinai hospital building; the broader campus has continued to add major research and residential construction around it.
Sources
3 citedOpen →
- 01archives.mssm.edu
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- 02archives.mssm.edu
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- 03commons.wikimedia.org
File:Guggenheim Pavilion Atrium at The Mount Sinai Hospital.jpg
- Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · 2021-06-05
The Guggenheim Pavilion as completed; the same physical building as the 1987 record, photographed long after both construction phases.
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