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...." 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 son John J. Keely (died 1879, Brooklyn), and son-in-law, Thomas F. Houghton. His son, Charles Keely, an architect in his father's firm died in December 1889 at the age of thirty-five of pneumonia, while in Hartford, consulting with the bishop on business. In 1884, University of Notre Dame awarded Keely its Laetare Medal. The medal has been awarded annually to a Catholic “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the Church and enriched the heritage of humanity.” Established in 1883, Keely was the second person to receive the award after historian John Gilmary Shea. Keely died on August 11, 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 inconspicuous polished granite block embossed "KEELY." Works Arkansas Cathedral of St. Andrew, Little Rock Connecticut Church of St. Mary, the Immaculate Conception, Derby Sacred Heart Church, Waterbury Cathedral of St. Augustine (1868), Bridgeport Assumption Church, Ansonia St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church, Baltic St. Peter Church, Danbury (Keely and Murphy) Cathedral of St. Joseph Hartford (burned 1956) St. John's Church, Middletown District of Columbia St. Dominic Catholic Church (Washington, D.C.) (1865). Illinois Cathedral of the Holy Name, Chicago (1874) St. James Church, Chicago (demolished, 2014) Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church, Chicago (1868) St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago (1871) St. Mary Carmelite Church, Joliet Louisiana St. Joseph Church, New Orleans (1869-1875) Maine Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (1869), Portland St. Joseph's Church (1865), Lewiston St. John's Church (1855), Bangor Maryland Corpus Christi Church, Baltimore St. Joseph's Monastery's Shrine Church Baltimore Congregation of the Passionists' Rectory Baltimore Massachusetts Immaculate Conception Church, Newburyport Holy Trinity Church, Boston Our Lady of Victories Church, Boston St. James Church, Boston St. Mary's Church, Boston (demolished 1977) St. Mary's Church, Taunton St. Francis De Sales Church, Roxbury (original building, demolished) 1859: St. Francis de Sales Church, Charlestown St. Augustine Church, South Boston St. Vincent de Paul Church, South Boston Sts. Peter and Paul