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Patrick Keely

American architect

Died when: 80 years 2 days (960 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Patrick Keely

Patrick Charles Keely (August 9, 1816 — August 11, 1896) was an Irish-American architect based in Brooklyn, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island.He was a prolific designer of nearly 600 churches and hundreds of other institutional buildings for the Roman Catholic Church or Roman Catholic patrons in the eastern United States and Canada, particularly in New York City, Boston and Chicago in the later half of the 19th century.

He designed every 19th-century Catholic cathedral in New England.Several other church and institutional architects began their careers in his firm.


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