Architect Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention

The Kitchen Sisters Present

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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Anna Wagner Keichline (1889–1943) was the first registered woman architect in Pennsylvania and was among the first registered women architects in the United States. During her long career, she designed dozens of commercial and residential buildings, as well as numerous industrial products. She was awarded seven patents for her innovative residential and building designs, including one for The Building Block (1927), popularly known as the K-brick, which was a forerunner of today’s concrete block.

Not every architect has the opportunity to build skyscrapers. In Bellefonte, Anna used her talents to improve the lives of her neighbors, by designing their houses and gathering places. She adopted a gently accommodating architectural style in the shadow of high Victorian lacery, and designed sturdy churches, theaters, homes, schools, and recreation facilities in her hometown that still stand well and firmly in their context.

Produced by Brandi Howell for New Angle Voice podcast of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Host, Cynthia Kracauer. Editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. Thanks to production assistant Virginia Eskridge and special thanks to Nancy Perkins, Sarah Lichtman, and Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler. Funding for this podcast comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation.

The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton. From PRX’s Radiotopia network.

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1:00.0	with your friends. 13. 1913.
1:05.0	That was the year that women were trying to have marches all over the country to call attention to suffrage.
1:15.5	They had the big march in Washington, D.C. that was so publicized.
1:20.0	Ours was July 4th down the main street in front of everybody in Belfon, Pennsylvania.
1:27.2	She wore her graduation robes from architecture school as a sign to everyone watching that women can achieve this.
1:37.0	I always look at that and say here she was two years out of college trying to get clients trying to work and she's walking down the street thinking I'm a college graduate yet I can't vote.
1:50.0	There's a lot of men with their arms crossed. They don't look happy.
1:54.0	That was really sticking your neck out, and I see that as quite brave.
1:59.0	Today, the Kitchen Sisters present Anna Wagner Kieckline, a legacy of invention.
2:05.3	Produced by Brandy Howell for the podcast New Angled Voice,
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