Francis Keally

Keally was born in Pittsburgh Twelve pages of his travel sketches from two years in Europe were published in Pencil Points of June 1928, raising his professional profile. Keally's first major commission was won in a national competition with 75 entries—a federally-funded monument to the First Permanent Settlement of the West, erected in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in what was then Pioneer Memorial State Park. Keally's partner in the competition entry was the architectural sculptor Ulric Ellerhusen. Three years later the same team of Keally and Ellerhusen won the national competition for the Oregon State Capitol, with Keally aligning himself with the larger New York firm of Trowbridge & Livingston. Later he partnered with Alfred Morton Githens. Keally taught at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota, == Work ==

• four-story parish story addition to the St. Luke's Lutheran Church, West 46th Street, NYC, 1922 • monument to the First Permanent Settlement of the West, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 1935 • Oregon State Capitol, as design architect, with Trowbridge & Livingston, Salem, Oregon, 1938 • Barbour Residence, 1119 Scenic Drive, Sequoyah Hills, Knoxville, Tennessee, with landscape architect Arthur F. Brinkerhoff, 1940 • Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1940 • Ford Foundation Library aka "Henry-Ford-Bau", Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, as library consultant associated with German architects Sobotka, Mueller, 1954 • additions to the Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan, with Cass Gilbert Jr., completed 1963 • St. John the Theologian Greek Orthodox Church, 353 E. Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, New Jersey, 1966 • Concord, New Hampshire public library (Githens & Keally) == References ==