[1] Keney Tower is located on the northern fringe of downtown Hartford, from which it is now separated by Interstate 84.

It is located in a park 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) in size at the southeast corner of Main and Ely Streets, in an area dominated by traffic and commercial development.

There are clock faces on all four sides, above which are lancet-arched louvers around the chamber housing chiming bells that sound every quarter hour.

The family, however, instead placed a plaque on the tower reading "This tower erected to the memory of my mother is designed to preserve from other occupancy the ground sacred to me as her home and to stand in perpetual honor to the wisdom, goodness and womanly nobility of her to whose guidance I owe my success in life and its chief joy ~ Henry Keney".

[2] The tower was designed by New York City architect Charles C. Haight, whose specialty was Collegiate Gothic architecture.