Huntington Honors Pioneering Female Architect Fay Kellogg

Huntington NY

17 March, 2021

2:25 PM

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GREENLAWN, NY— In honor of Women's History Month, the Town of Huntington is honoring a prominent female architect who spent summers in Greenlawn. Fay Kellogg is considered one of the leading women in architecture in the early 20th century, but Kellogg is also celebrated as an early advocate for women's rights, including voting rights, and she helped open the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts French art school to female students. A historical marker in Kellogg's honor will be unveiled soon at 22 Boulevard Ave. The ceremony scheduled for Thursday at 12 p.m. was postponed by the town due to weather. The small home was once the Greenlawn post office, designed by Kellogg. But Kellogg designed even bigger structures during her career including a skyscraper in San Francisco and hospitals and municipal buildings in New York. She famously said to an interviewer, while she stood on a swaying beam nine stories off the ground on one of her building sites: "I don't approve of a well-equipped woman creeping along; let her leap ahead as men do. All she needs is courage." The Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association obtained a grant to fund the erection of the marker. Kellogg, a New York City resident, bought 15 acres of land in Greenlawn in 1909.