Francis Keally

Francis J. Keally (December 3, 1889 – 1978)[1] was an American architect and pioneering preservationist, based in New York City.

Keally's design credits include the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Oregon in 1938, in a one-time association with Trowbridge & Livingston; the Former Embassy of Iran in Washington, D.C.; and the main building of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Keally was born in Pittsburgh[1] and first trained in architecture at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1912, then he moved to the University of Pennsylvania.

[2] Twelve pages of his travel sketches from two years in Europe were published in Pencil Points of June 1928, raising his professional profile.

[3] 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.