Keichline, Anna, 1889-1943

Anna Wagner Keichline 1889–1943; born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; won a prize for a table and chest she made at a county fair in 1903; graduated from Bellefonte High School in 1906. She studied mechanical engineering for a year at Pennsylvania State College, the only woman in her class, and moved to Cornell University, graduating in 1911, their fifth female to receive an architecture degree; became noted for working on "time- and motion-saving" design of kitchens and interiors; owned seven patents; most noted invention was the "K Brick" in 1927; receiving honors from the American Ceramic Society in 1931; designed houses in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.; involved in World War I efforts, serving as a "special agent with military intelligence; involved with politics, helping with President Hoover's Better Housing Conference and leading a march in Bellefonte of Suffragists during nationally organized protests on July 4, 1913;

Anna Wagner Keichline; 24 May 1889,
Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania; 5 Feb 1943, Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania;