20 Facts About Fay Kellogg

Fay Kellogg was described as "the foremost woman architect in the United States" in the early years of the 20th century.

Fay Kellogg said she had always been handy with tools, and had wanted to build a home for herself, a goal which she eventually realized.

Fay Kellogg began studying with a German tutor for two years, from whom she learned drawing and mathematics, and then studied for a year at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

Fay Kellogg obtained employment with Rudolphe L Daus, where she worked on projects such as the 13th Regiment Armory and the Monastery of the Precious Blood.

Fay Kellogg then worked at the architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings for one year, after which she went to Paris to study at the atelier of Marcel de Monclos.

At the time, women were not admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and Kellogg vigorously fought for the admission of women to that school during her two years in Paris.

Fay Kellogg was ultimately successful but too late to avail herself of the opportunity to attend.

Fay Kellogg designed the prominent double staircase in that building's atrium and she said it was her idea to place statues of early Dutch governors like Peter Stuyvesant on the building so that they would look out over the modern city.

Fay Kellogg was in charge of all their building and renovation work in the United States.

For jobs within 200 miles of New York City, Fay Kellogg would supervise directly.

Fay Kellogg helped design the Woman's Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, founded by female physicians in 1881, as well as hundreds of other buildings and cottages.

Fay Kellogg designed suburban railway stations, and was the architect for a real estate developer on Long Island.

Fay Kellogg played a role in opening the architecture profession to women.

Fay Kellogg said women were well suited to be architects, and "as is the case with all pioneers, the women who have gone into architecture are intensely in earnest".

Fay Kellogg said she refused concessions from male colleagues when offered: "I want to be treated neither as a superior nor as an inferior, but as an equal".

Fay Kellogg owned a 15-acre farm on Long Island, where she spent six months of the year, and from which she sold eggs year round.

Fay Kellogg was reclaiming the "waste land" with the intent of eventually retiring there.

Fay Kellogg was described as a small, well-dressed woman with blue eyes.

Fay Kellogg was athletic, participating in fencing, boxing, wrestling and equestrian activities, as well as playing basketball and golf.

Fay Kellogg became ill in Atlanta, Georgia in the spring of 1918 while supervising construction of YWCA hostess houses at Camp Gordon, and died in July 1918 at her home in Brooklyn, New York, aged 47.