Robert J. Reiley

Reiley was born in New York City and was educated in the local public school system. He attended the prestigious Jesuit school, Xavier High School (New York City), and Columbia Grammar School, both college preparatory schools, in New York City. After the partnership was dissolved, both men went on to lengthy careers designing Roman Catholic churches, with Reiley's firm known as Robert J. Reiley. ==Architectural practice==

Robert J. Reiley practiced under his own name from 1913 until 1952 when he took his son, Robert J. Reiley Jr. into partnership and renamed the firm Robert J. Reiley & Associates. His main client remained the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York for which he designed a number of churches and associated structures. His office was located at 50 East 41 Street from the 1920s and 45 West 45th Street in the 1950s. During his career, he was licensed to practice architecture in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and the District of Columbia. The firm had a staff of around twenty and banked with the Guaranty Trust Company, Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, New York City. Several later noteworthy architects began their careers in his office including Louis M. Thorn and Brother Cajetan Baumann, OFM (1899–1969), a Franciscan who was to design many modern buildings mostly for Franciscan clients in the middle part of the 20th century. ==Personal life==

Reiley was involved with a number of Catholic organizations. He was the director of the Catholic Camp Association, as well as the Alumni Federation of Columbia University, and Committee Chairman of Catholic Charities. During World War I, he worked on a housing project and during World War II, he designs hospitals and community buildings for service men. Reiley has at least one son, the architect Robert J. Reiley Jr. (born 22 March 1914 in New York City), whom he took into partnership in 1952 renaming his firm Robert J. Reiley & Associates. ==Work as Reiley and Steinback (1904-1913)==

• St. Stanislaus Church, Adams, MA • Church of the Queen of All Saints, Brooklyn, NY • 1908: The Basilica of St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr, Chicopee, MA • St. Stanislaus' Church, Meriden, CT • St. Aloysius' Church, Great Neck, LI • 1909: Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Bayonne, NJ ==Works in New York City as Robert J. Reiley (1913-1952) and Robert J. Reiley & Associates (1952-1961)==

• 1924: St. Rose of Lima's Church Parochial School, A four-story brick parish school for $250,000. cost $467,000. cost $363,000 • 1951: Colonial Park Houses, New York City, cost $10 million (as associate architect). • 1952: Holy Agony Church and Rectory, 1828-1834 Third Avenue, for $250,000. • 1952: Junior High School#71 (Manhattan, New York), Avenue B and Fifth Street, New York City, cost $3 million • 1952: St. Ann's School (Queens, New York), Flushing, Queens, New York City cost $550,000 • 1952: Lavelle School for the Blind (Bronx, New York), cost $228,853. • 1952 Blessed Sacrament Church, Staten Island NY • 1952: St. Anastasius' Convent (Brooklyn, New York), cost $247,000. • 1953 Church of St. Theresa of the Infant Jesus (Staten Island, New York), West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City, cost $224,000. • 1953: Church of the Blessed Sacrament (Staten Island, New York), West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City, cost $175,000. • 1954: St. Joseph's Church Rectory, 365-371 Sixth Avenue, a four-storey rectory for $150,000. • 1953 Junior High School#117 (Brooklyn, New York), cost $3 million. • St. Finbar's Community Center (Brooklyn, New York), cost $163,660. ==Works elsewhere as Robert J. Reiley (1913-1952) and Robert J. Reiley & Associates (1952-1961)==

• 1928: Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, NY, cost $1,664,000 to 2 million. cost $408,000. • 1939: Mercy Hospital (Rockville Centre, New York), cost $350,000 to $400,000. • 1940: St. Stephen Church, Kearny, NJ • 1940: St. Stephen's Church (Arlington, New Jersey) • 1951: St. Charles' Hospital (East Toledo, Ohio), cost $4 million. • 1951: Christ the King Seminary, campus of St. Bonaventure University, Allegany, New York, cost $1 million. • 1952: St. Mary's Convent (perth Amboy, New Jersey), cost $240,000. • 1952: New York State Teacher's College at New Paltz Library, New Paltz, New York, cost $330,000. • 1953: St. Vincent DePaul Church and Rectory, Yardville, NJ, cost $326,500. • 1953: St. Agnes Church, Dayton, OH, cost $400,000. • 1953: School, Milltown, New Jersey, cost $350,000. • Star of the Sea Convent (Atlantic City, New Jersey), cost $90,157. ==References==