What began as the Phoenix Iron Works took its more familiar name when William Kehoe bought out his partner in 1883. Kehoe extended the main building on Broughton Street eastward, adding to the brick foundry and constructing a three-story

entrance pavilion with a mansard roof and cupola and a two-story pattern shop. Several other buildings once occupied the factory campus of less than one acre. The only other extant structures, however, are the smithy and the basilica-shaped machine shop that abut the east end of the brick pattern shop. The impressive machine shop (before 1916) is a 165-foot-long, steel-framed structure clad with galvanized corrugated iron sheets and a long monitor roof. The Kehoe works relocated to a shipyard site during World War II.