1991Brooklyn, New YorkHospital / Health

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center — Major Modernization Project

Possibly the best archival-photo lead in the entire database: NYU holds a dedicated 1991 set of exterior and interior photographs taken specifically because demolition was imminent.

Wyckoff Heights Medical Center from Wyckoff and Dekalb Avenues, photographed in 2011.

Current view · 2011 · Photo: Freshpond · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

01The story

Why this project matters

Project identity: Verified
Kelly connection: Family source
Masonry scope: Probable

Rita’s list

Rita Bartscherer’s handwritten entry: Wyckoff Heights Medical Center — 1991

Transcription: Wyckoff Heights Medical Center — 1991

Recorded by Rita Bartscherer · Bartscherer family record

Entry

KM-205

Sheet

2 of two

As written

“Wyckoff Heights Medical Center — 1991”

In November 1991, architect Charles H. Henkels photographed the old hospital immediately before portions were demolished for Wyckoff's Major Modernization Project. Joseph's 1991 entry matches that modernization exactly.

Why it matters

Likely substantial project-specific masonry: ochre face brick with red-brick accents, the four-story curved glass-block entry wall, CMU/back-up walls, shafts/service/fire-rated partitions, and masonry associated with the five-story ambulatory building and tower-over-existing-beds. Exact Kelly quantities/package remain unproven.

02What Kelly did

What Kelly did here

Kelly connection

Family source

Scope confidence

Probable

Likely: most likely CMU/concrete-block partitions, shafts, stair/elevator enclosures and other fire-rated/service walls; exterior brick or masonry backup is also plausible where the hospital addition used a masonry facade.

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