Opening the envelopes containing names of the winners revealed that the plans given first rank by the jury were drawn by Trowbridge and Livingston, and Francis Keally, associated architects of New York City. Those ranking below the winner, but not rated by individual order of merit, were plans designed by William Peyton Day of San Francisco; Wesley Sherwood Bessell, New York City; Walter T. Karcher and Livingston Smith of Philadelphia; John A. Thompson and Gerald A. Holmes of New York City; de Young and Moscowitz of New York City with Karl W. Rosenberg of Portland as associate. Each of these five was awarded a cash prize of $1500.
The successful architects are noted as among the most distinguished and successful in the United States. The firm of Trowbridge and Livingston were architects for such structures as Chemical National Bank, Bankers Trust Company, Equitable Trust Company, Bank of America, New York Stock Exchange addition, St. Regis Hotel, J. P. Morgan and Company buildings in New York City; Palace Hotel, San Francisco; Mitsui Bank in Tokyo, Japan; United States Post office and Court House, Pittsburg. Mr. Trowbridge died in 1925. Mr. Livingston is the present head of the firm, with George W. Jacoby also a member. Francis Keally maintains his own offices in New York, but joined with Trowbridge and Livingston in this competition. After his professional training in the University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania and other institutions, he was employed in the offices of the late Cass Gilbert, designer of state capitols in Minnesota, West Virginia and Arkansas, and of the Woolworth building in New York City. Mr. Keally designed the memorial for George Rogers Clark at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Arriving in Salem after being notified of their appointment as architects, Mr. Keally declared it was their purpose to make Oregon's capitol one of the most beautiful, as well as most practical, capitols in the United States.
