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'''Patrick Charles Keely''' (1816, Thurles, County Tipperary — Aug. 11, 1896, Brooklyn, New York) was an Irish-American [[architect]] based in [[Brooklyn, New York]], and [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. He was a prolific designer of nearly six hundred churches and hundreds of other institutional buildings for the [[Roman Catholic Church]] or Roman Catholic patrons in the eastern [[United States of America]] and [[Canada]], particularly in [[New York City]], [[Boston, Massachusetts]], and [[Chicago]] in the later half of the nineteenth century. He designed every nineteenth-century Catholic cathedral in New England.<ref name=keely>Decker, Kevin F. [http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kevin.decker/Research%20Information/Keely.htm " Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896)"], University of Plattsburgh, New York (2000)</ref> Several other church and institutional architects began their careers in his firm.
'''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.<ref name=keely>Decker, Kevin F. [http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/kevin.decker/Research%20Information/Keely.htm " Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896)"], University of Plattsburgh, New York (2000)</ref> Several other church and institutional architects began their careers in his firm.


==Early life in Ireland==
==Early life in Ireland==
Keely was born in [[Thurles]], [[County Tipperary]], [[Ireland]] (alternatively another source states it was [[County Kilkenny, Ireland]]<ref name=keely/>), on August 9, 1816, to a family in comfortable circumstances. His draftsman and builder father introduced him to architecture and training in construction, though nothing is recorded of his architectural design education.
Keely was born in [[Thurles]], [[County Tipperary]], then a part of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] (alternatively another source states it was [[County Kilkenny]], <ref name=keely/> on August 9, 1816, to a family in comfortable circumstances. His draftsman and builder father introduced him to architecture and training in construction, though nothing is recorded of his architectural design education.


==Early life in Brooklyn, New York==
==Early life in Brooklyn, New York==
He emigrated through [[Castle Clinton|Castle Gardens]] to [[Brooklyn, New York]], in 1842. He arrived at a time when Catholicism in the United States was expanding from its initial footholds in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], [[New York City]], and [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. Initially, he worked as a carpenter and builder since there were few trained architects practicing and most structures were erected with the design assistance of the client and builder alone. Common practice held that the builder, whether trained as mason or carpenter, crafted his own plans, and details were often executed without even the aid of drawings.
Keely emigrated to the United States, landing at [[Castle Clinton|Castle Gardens]] in [[Manhattan]] in 1842, and settling in [[Brooklyn]]. He arrived at a time when Catholicism in the United States was expanding from its initial footholds in [[Baltimore]], [[New York City]] and [[Boston]]. Initially, he worked as a carpenter and builder since there were few trained architects practicing and most structures were erected with the design assistance of the client and builder alone. Common practice held that the builder, whether trained as mason or carpenter, crafted his own plans, and details were often executed without even the aid of drawings. For a number of years Keely worked at his trade without attracting attention. During this time, he met [[the Rev.]] Sylvester Malone, a Roman Catholic priest his own age.

For a number of years Keely worked at his trade without attracting attention. During this time, he met the Rev. [[Sylvester Malone]], a [[Roman Catholic priest]] his own age. Father Malone was sent to form a parish near the waterfront at Williamsburgh in [[Kings County, New York]], in 1846. Together with Keely, he worked out a plan for a Gothic church possessing pointed arches, pinnacles, and a few buttresses. Working as a carpenter, Keely produced designs the new Roman Catholic [[Church of Saints Peter and Paul (Brooklyn, New York)]] in the [[Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn]] in 1847.
In 1846 Malone was sent to form a parish near the Brooklyn waterfront in the [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] neighborhood. Together with Keely, he worked out a plan for a Gothic church possessing pointed arches, pinnacles, and a few buttresses. Working as a carpenter, Keely produced designs from which was built the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in 1847.
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[[Image:AlphabetCityStBrigids.JPG|thumb|350px|St. Brigid's Church (1848), Lower East Side, New York City]]


==Architectural career==
==Architectural career==
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[[Image:AlphabetCityStBrigids.JPG|thumb|350px|St. Brigid's Church (1848), Lower East Side, New York City]]
Saints Peter and Paul, Williamsburgh, was considered an epoch in Catholic building in America. The much-praised work (demolished in 1957<ref>[http://www.keelysociety.com/cathedralfire.htm Keely Society]</ref>) established him as a competent architect and builder at a time when a number of new Roman Catholic churches were being planned "but a relative scarcity of competent architects of the Roman Catholic faith, and Keely's reputation for honesty and integrity quickly made him a popular choice among the hierarchy and clergy throughout the eastern United States."<ref name=keely/>
The Church of Sts. Peter and Paul was considered an epoch in Catholic building in America. The much-praised work (demolished in 1957)<ref>[http://www.keelysociety.com/cathedralfire.htm Keely Society]</ref> established him as a competent architect and builder at a time when a number of new Roman Catholic churches were being planned "but a relative scarcity of competent architects of the Roman Catholic faith, and Keely's reputation for honesty and integrity quickly made him a popular choice among the hierarchy and clergy throughout the eastern United States."<ref name=keely/>


Thereafter, Keely effectively became the in-house architect for the Roman Catholic archdioceses and was approached from all sides with requests for designs of churches and other necessary structures for an expanding religious life. In Brooklyn alone there was a great wave of Catholic settlers for whom churches were urgently needed and Keely was the only one thought of to do the work.
Thereafter, Keely effectively became the in-house architect for the Roman Catholic archdioceses and was approached from all sides with requests for designs of churches and other necessary structures for an expanding religious life. In Brooklyn alone there was a great wave of Catholic settlers for whom churches were urgently needed and Keely was the only one thought of to do the work.
He continued as a carpenter / craftsman in conjunction with his designing duties, handcrafting such ecclesiastical features of the reredos of the now closed [[Saint Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, New York|Saint Brigid's Church]] (1848) in the [[Lower East Side]]. Later, he partnered with his wife’s brother in law, [[James Murphy (architect)|James Murphy]] in Brooklyn, New York and Providence, Rhode Island, under the name Keely & Murphy from the 1860s to 1867, until Murphy opened his own practice in Providence.<ref name=keely/>
He continued as a carpenter / craftsman in conjunction with his designing duties, handcrafting such ecclesiastical features of the reredos of the nearly demolished [[Saint Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, New York|Saint Brigid's Church]] (1848) in the [[Lower East Side]] of Manhattan.
Keely later partnered with his wife’s brother-in-law, [[James Murphy (architect)|James Murphy]] in Brooklyn, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, under the name Keely & Murphy from the 1860s to 1867, until Murphy opened his own practice in Providence.<ref name=keely/>
Keely worked throughout the eastern United States and Canada, primarily in the industrial mill towns and cities of the [[state of New York]] and [[New England]], principally a designer of Roman Catholic churches or institutional buildings. Among his work were several cathedrals in the Northeast and "many of the more substantial parish churches" later "elevated to cathedral status during the twentieth century." He designed a few churches for Protestant congregations…."<ref name=keely/>
Keely worked throughout the eastern United States and Canada, primarily in the industrial mill towns and cities of the [[state of New York]] and [[New England]], principally a designer of Roman Catholic churches or institutional buildings. Among his work were several cathedrals in the Northeast and "many of the more substantial parish churches" later "elevated to cathedral status during the twentieth century." He designed a few churches for Protestant congregations…."<ref name=keely/>
[[File:Gesu theatre (Montreal).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal]], [[Montreal, Quebec]]]]
[[File:Gesu theatre (Montreal).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal]], [[Montreal, Quebec]]]]

Several later noteworthy architects began their careers in his office, including [[Elliott Lynch]], [[James Farmer (architect)|James Farmer]] (his wife’s brother), [[James Murphy (architect)|James Murphy]] (his wife’s brother-in-law), his sons [[Charles Keely]] (d.1889, Hartford, CT), [[John J. Keely]] (d.1879, Brooklyn), and son-in-law [[Thomas F. Houghton]].<ref name=keely/>
Several later noteworthy architects began their careers with Keely's firm, including [[Elliott Lynch]], James Farmer (his wife’s brother), James Murphy (his wife’s brother-in-law), his sons, Charles Keely (died 1889, [[Hartford, Connecticut]]), John J. Keely (died 1879, Brooklyn), and son-in-law, Thomas F. Houghton.<ref name=keely/>
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He died after a long illness, while still directing the completion of several churches with his son-in-law Houghton. He is buried in [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn]], under an inauspicious polished granite block embossed "KEELY."<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13982217] Find a Grave</ref>

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Keely died in 1896 after a long illness, while still directing the completion of several churches with his son-in-law, Thomas Houghton. He was buried in [[Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn]], under an inauspicious polished granite block embossed "KEELY."<ref>[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13982217] Find a Grave</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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* Cathedral of St. Augustine, [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgeport]]
* Cathedral of St. Augustine, [[Bridgeport, Connecticut|Bridgeport]]
* Assumption Church, [[Ansonia, Connecticut|Ansonia]]
* Assumption Church, [[Ansonia, Connecticut|Ansonia]]
* St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, [[Baltic, Connecticut]]
* St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, [[Baltic, Connecticut|Baltic]]
* St. Peter Church, [[Danbury, Connecticut]] (attributed to Kiely and Murphy)
* St. Peter Church, [[Danbury, Connecticut|Danbury]] (Kiely and Murphy)


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*St. Michael Church, [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]
*St. Michael Church, [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]
*St. Peter the Apostle Church, [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]
*St. Peter the Apostle Church, [[New Brunswick, New Jersey|New Brunswick]]
*[[Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Paterson, New Jersey)|Cathedral of St. John the Baptist]], [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] (1865)


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[[File:Boniface RCC 190 Duffield brite jeh.JPG|thumb|left|upright|St Boniface, Brooklyn]]
[[File:Boniface RCC 190 Duffield brite jeh.JPG|thumb|left|upright|St. Boniface Church, Brooklyn]]
*[[Church of Saints Peter and Paul (Brooklyn, New York)|Church of Saints Peter and Paul]], [[Brooklyn]] (1847-1957)
*Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, [[Brooklyn]] (1847-1957)
*[[St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church (New York City)|Saint Brigid's Church]], [[Manhattan]] (1848)
*[[St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church (New York City)|Saint Brigid's Church]], [[Manhattan]] (1848)
*[[St. Ann's Church (Brooklyn, New York)|St. Ann's Church]], [[Brooklyn]] (1860), northwest corner of Gold and Front Streets<ref name=Stern>[[Robert A. M. Stern]], [[Thomas Mellins]], and [[David Fishman]]. ''New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age.'' (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.875</ref>
*[[St. Ann's Church (Brooklyn, New York)|St. Ann's Church]], Brooklyn (1860), northwest corner of Gold and Front Streets<ref name=Stern>[[Robert A. M. Stern]], [[Thomas Mellins]], and [[David Fishman]]. ''New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age.'' (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.875</ref>
*[[St. Francis Xavier Church (Manhattan)]], 16th Street [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]]<ref>Gray, Christopher. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E4DB173FF934A15750C0A9639C8B63&pagewanted=all "Streetscapes: West 16th Street; A Side-Street Surprise: A Monumental Church"] ''[[New York Times]]'' (March 27, 2005)</ref><ref>{{cite AIA4}}, p.192</ref><ref>[http://www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE017-ChurchofSt.FrancisXavier%20.htm St. Francis Xavier Church at www.nyc-architecture.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.sfxavier.org/wordpress/restoration-history/ Saint Francis Xavier: Restoration history]</ref><ref>[[Alejandro Bahamón]] and [[Àgata Losantos]], ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=xibua4jL-uAC&pg=PT115&dq=francis+xavier%2BChurch%2BBronx&hl=en&ei=RWxRTeXsLtSEtgf74NSDCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=francis%20xavier%2BChurch%2BBronx&f=false New York: A Historical Atlas of Architecture]'' (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2007), p.99.</ref><ref>[[David W. Dunlap]], ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0JVmnJdqKYoC&pg=PA203&dq=cabrini%2BChurch%2Bnew+york%2BDunlap&hl=en&ei=A3BRTasMj7e2B6ia0cIJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship]''. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 204.</ref>
*[[St. Francis Xavier Church (Manhattan)]], 16th Street, Manhattan<ref>Gray, Christopher. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E4DB173FF934A15750C0A9639C8B63&pagewanted=all "Streetscapes: West 16th Street; A Side-Street Surprise: A Monumental Church"] ''[[New York Times]]'' (March 27, 2005)</ref><ref>{{cite AIA4}}, p.192</ref><ref>[http://www.nyc-architecture.com/CHE/CHE017-ChurchofSt.FrancisXavier%20.htm St. Francis Xavier Church at www.nyc-architecture.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.sfxavier.org/wordpress/restoration-history/ Saint Francis Xavier: Restoration history]</ref><ref>[[Alejandro Bahamón]] and [[Àgata Losantos]], ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=xibua4jL-uAC&pg=PT115&dq=francis+xavier%2BChurch%2BBronx&hl=en&ei=RWxRTeXsLtSEtgf74NSDCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=francis%20xavier%2BChurch%2BBronx&f=false New York: A Historical Atlas of Architecture]'' (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2007), p.99.</ref><ref>[[David W. Dunlap]], ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0JVmnJdqKYoC&pg=PA203&dq=cabrini%2BChurch%2Bnew+york%2BDunlap&hl=en&ei=A3BRTasMj7e2B6ia0cIJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship]''. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 204.</ref>
[[File:Anthony of Padua RCC Greenpoint jeh.jpg|thumb|upright|St Anthony of Padua, Brooklyn]]
[[File:Anthony of Padua RCC Greenpoint jeh.jpg|thumb|upright|St Anthony of Padua, Brooklyn]]
*[[St. Anthony of Padua's Church (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*[[St. Anthony of Padua's Church (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*[[Church of St. Stephen and the Sacred Heart (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*[[Church of St. Stephen and the Sacred Heart (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*[[St. Bernard's Church (New York City)|St. Bernard's Church]] (1873–1875) (now the home of [[Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard's Church (New York City)|Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish]])
*[[St. Patrick's Church (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*[[St. Boniface's Church (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*St. Boniface Church, Brooklyn (now the Brooklyn [[Oratory of Saint Philip Neri|Oratory]])
*St. Charles Borromeo Church (1868), 21 Sidney Place, [[Brooklyn]], "reputedly his 325th church design."<ref name=Stern/>
*St. Charles Borromeo Church (1868), 21 Sidney Place, [[Brooklyn]], "reputedly his 325th church design."<ref name=Stern/>
*Holy Innocents Church, [[Manhattan]]
*Holy Innocents Church, Manhattan
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*[[Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Albany, New York)|Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception]], [[Albany]]
*St. Joseph's Cathedral, [[Buffalo, New York]]
*[[St. Joseph's Church (Albany, New York)Closed]]
*St. Joseph's Cathedral, [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]]
*St. Joseph's Church, Albany (closed)
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*[[Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Albany, New York)]], [[Albany, New York|Albany]]
*[[St. Bernard's Church (New York City)]] (1873–1875)
*St. Mary Church, [[Yonkers]] (an early church by Keely, replaced in 1880)
*St. Mary Church, [[Yonkers, NY]] (an early church by Keely, replaced in 1880)
*[[St. Patrick's Church (Brooklyn, New York)]]
*St. Vincent de Paul, [[Brooklyn]]
*St. Vincent de Paul Church, Brooklyn


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| DATE OF BIRTH = August 9, 1816
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| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[Thurles]], [[County Tipperary]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]]
| DATE OF DEATH = 1896
| DATE OF DEATH = August 11, 1896
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| PLACE OF DEATH = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]], United States
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St. Mary's Church Complex (Newport, Rhode Island), the oldest Catholic Church building in Rhode Island

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.[1] Several other church and institutional architects began their careers in his firm.

Early life in Ireland

Keely was born in Thurles, County Tipperary, then a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (alternatively another source states it was County Kilkenny, [1] on August 9, 1816, to a family in comfortable circumstances. His draftsman and builder father introduced him to architecture and training in construction, though nothing is recorded of his architectural design education.

Early life in Brooklyn, New York

Keely emigrated to the United States, landing at Castle Gardens in Manhattan in 1842, and settling in Brooklyn. He arrived at a time when Catholicism in the United States was expanding from its initial footholds in Baltimore, New York City and Boston. Initially, he worked as a carpenter and builder since there were few trained architects practicing and most structures were erected with the design assistance of the client and builder alone. Common practice held that the builder, whether trained as mason or carpenter, crafted his own plans, and details were often executed without even the aid of drawings. For a number of years Keely worked at his trade without attracting attention. During this time, he met the Rev. Sylvester Malone, a Roman Catholic priest his own age.

In 1846 Malone was sent to form a parish near the Brooklyn waterfront in the Williamsburg neighborhood. Together with Keely, he worked out a plan for a Gothic church possessing pointed arches, pinnacles, and a few buttresses. Working as a carpenter, Keely produced designs from which was built the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in 1847.

Architectural career

St. Brigid's Church (1848), Lower East Side, New York City

The Church of Sts. Peter and Paul was considered an epoch in Catholic building in America. The much-praised work (demolished in 1957)[2] established him as a competent architect and builder at a time when a number of new Roman Catholic churches were being planned "but a relative scarcity of competent architects of the Roman Catholic faith, and Keely's reputation for honesty and integrity quickly made him a popular choice among the hierarchy and clergy throughout the eastern United States."[1]

Thereafter, Keely effectively became the in-house architect for the Roman Catholic archdioceses and was approached from all sides with requests for designs of churches and other necessary structures for an expanding religious life. In Brooklyn alone there was a great wave of Catholic settlers for whom churches were urgently needed and Keely was the only one thought of to do the work. He continued as a carpenter / craftsman in conjunction with his designing duties, handcrafting such ecclesiastical features of the reredos of the nearly demolished Saint Brigid's Church (1848) in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Keely later partnered with his wife’s brother-in-law, James Murphy in Brooklyn, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, under the name Keely & Murphy from the 1860s to 1867, until Murphy opened his own practice in Providence.[1] Keely worked throughout the eastern United States and Canada, primarily in the industrial mill towns and cities of the state of New York and New England, principally a designer of Roman Catholic churches or institutional buildings. Among his work were several cathedrals in the Northeast and "many of the more substantial parish churches" later "elevated to cathedral status during the twentieth century." He designed a few churches for Protestant congregations…."[1]

Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec

Several later noteworthy architects began their careers with Keely's firm, including Elliott Lynch, James Farmer (his wife’s brother), James Murphy (his wife’s brother-in-law), his sons, Charles Keely (died 1889, Hartford, Connecticut), John J. Keely (died 1879, Brooklyn), and son-in-law, Thomas F. Houghton.[1]

Keely died in 1896 after a long illness, while still directing the completion of several churches with his son-in-law, Thomas Houghton. He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, under an inauspicious polished granite block embossed "KEELY."[3]

Works

Arkansas
Connecticut
Illinois
Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame, Indiana
Louisiana
  • St. Joseph Church, New Orleans (1869-1875)
Indiana
Maine
North and west facades of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston
Maryland
Massachusetts
Hammerbeam ceiling, carved by Keely himself, at St. Mary Church, Charlestown, MA (1887-1893, 1895)
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
St. Boniface Church, Brooklyn
St Anthony of Padua, Brooklyn
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
St. Mary's Basilica, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Canada

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Decker, Kevin F. " Patrick Charles Keely (1816-1896)", University of Plattsburgh, New York (2000)
  2. ^ Keely Society
  3. ^ [1] Find a Grave
  4. ^ Susan and Michael Southworth, AIA Guide to Boston, Third Edition, (Guildford, Connecticut: GPP, 2008), p.146.
  5. ^ Susan and Michael Southworth, AIA Guide to Boston, Third Edition, (Guildford, Connecticut: GPP, 2008), p.155.
  6. ^ Susan and Michael Southworth, AIA Guide to Boston, Third Edition, (Guildford, Connecticut: GPP, 2008), p.241.
  7. ^ a b Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. (New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999), p.875
  8. ^ Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: West 16th Street; A Side-Street Surprise: A Monumental Church" New York Times (March 27, 2005)
  9. ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.192
  10. ^ St. Francis Xavier Church at www.nyc-architecture.com
  11. ^ Saint Francis Xavier: Restoration history
  12. ^ Alejandro Bahamón and Àgata Losantos, New York: A Historical Atlas of Architecture (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2007), p.99.
  13. ^ David W. Dunlap, From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.) p. 204.
  14. ^ http://www.evri.com/media/article;jsessionid=x1txbt36q0v8?title=Historic+Philadelphia+church+to+be+torn+down&page=http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100911_Historic_Philadelphia_church_to_be_torn_down.html&referring_uri=/person/patrick-keely-0xea408%3Bjsessionid%3Dx1txbt36q0v8&referring_title=Evri
  15. ^ "The New St. Patrick's". Charleston News & Courier. January 28, 1886. p. 8. Retrieved Nov. 11, 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  16. ^ http://www.saintbridgetchurch.com/history.htm St. Bridget Church, West Rutland VT
  • Francis William Wynn Kervick. “Patrick Charles Keely, Architect: A Record of His Life and Work.” South Bend, Indiana: S.V., 1953.

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