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The Tiber Island Cooperative Homes, designed by Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon and completed in 1965.

The Anacostia Community Museum, designed by Keyes Condon Florance and completed in 1987.

Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon was an American architectural firm active, under several different names, in Washington, D.C. from 1951 to 1997.

History and partners

Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon was established in 1951 as Keyes, Smith, Satterlee & Lethbridge, the partnership of Arthur H. Keyes (1917–2012), Chloethiel Woodard Smith (1910–1992), Nathaniel Satterlee (1915–1974) and Francis D. Lethbridge (1920–2008), all of whom had met in the office of Berla & Abel. In 1956 the firm was split into two: Keyes & Lethbridge and Satterlee & Smith. Of the latter firm, Smith would have a particularly successful career. Keyes and Lethbridge:

Arthur Hawkins Keyes Jr. was born May 26, 1917 in Rutland, Vermont. He attended Deerfield Academy and received his architectural education at Princeton University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating from the latter with a BArch in 1942. He worked for architects Berla & Abel and Burket, Neufeld & DeMars until 1949, when he opened his own office. During World War II he served in the naval reserve.

Francis Donald Lethbridge was born October 5, 1920 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was educated in the local public schools and at the Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Colorado and Yale University, graduating from the latter in 1946. During World War II he served in the naval reserve. He worked for architects Berla & Abel and Faulkner, Kingsbury & Stenhouse before establishing the firm of Satterlee & Lethbridge with Nathaniel Satterlee in 1950.

In 1958 they were joined by David H. Condon in partnership, and the firm became Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon:

David Holt Condon was born March 15, 1916 in Pasadena, California and was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with an AB in architecture in 1939. He briefly worked for Pasadena architect Whitney R. Smith before the outbreak of World War II, during which he served in the naval reserve. He then moved to Washington where he worked for architects Charles M. Goodman, Keyes, Smith, Satterlee & Lethbridge and Ronald S. Senseman before rejoining Keyes & Lethbridge in 1956.