KEROACK, Lucien Ferand Le Brice de (1886-1951), active in the Montreal area from 1916 onward. He received his primary and secondary education in Montreal, then moved to New York City to train under a local architect; while taking courses there, he won the coveted Goelet scholarship prize, named after the wealthy real estate developer Robert Goelet (1841-1899), who died leaving a financial endowment valued at $40 million dollars. Keroack used the funds from the prize to move to Paris, France where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Victor Laloux. Upon his return to the United States, he worked for an architect in Georgia, and then moved back to Montreal in 1916 where he was invited by Jean O. Marchand to become an associate in the new firm of Marchand & Keroack (C.R., xxx, 26 Jan. 1916, 92). It was intended that he would take the place of Stevens Haskell, a former partner of Marchand, who had died suddenly in May 1913, but their collaboration appears to have been a brief one; Keroack later joined Ross & MacDonald as a staff architect, and eventually opened an office under his own name at 190 St. James Street in 1926 or 1927. His best known work from this period was the Administration Building at the Montreal Botanical Gardens (1937-38), a significant Art Deco landmark with elaborate bas-reliefs on the exterior executed by Henri Hebert (Sandra Cohen-Rose, Northern Deco: Art Deco Architecture in Montreal, 1996, 142-5, illus.). Keroack later moved his office to Boucherville, and completed plans for a number of schools there in the County of Chambly. He died in Boucherville, Que. on 10 December 1951 (obit. La Presse [Montreal], 11 December 1951, 39; Le Devoir [Montreal], 12 Dec. 1951, 7)
MONTREAL BOTANICAL GARDENS, Pie IX Boulevard at Sherbrooke Street East, greenhouse, 1932; Administration Building begun 1932, completed 1937-38; a new and larger greenhouse, 1939 (C.R., xlvi, 13 July 1932, 46; Vol. 50, 1 Dec. 1937, 29; Gazette [Montreal], 27 Jan. 1933, 3, descrip.; Montreal Daily Star, 9 Feb. 1939, 32, descrip.; Montreal, Les Edifices Publics, 1981, 136-9, illus.; France Vanlaethem, Patrimoine en Devenir: l’Architecture Moderne du Quebec, 2012, 155-56, illus.; Tim Morawetz, Art Deco Architecture Across Canada, 2017, 85-6, illus. & descrip.)
OUTREMONT, residence for J.E. Bertrand, Maplewood Avenue, 1938 (Outremont b.p. 3342, 22 July 1938)
ST. LAMBERT, residence for Marion Langevin, Riverside Street at de Brixton Avenue, 1947 (Base de donnees Patrimonials de la Ville de St. Lambert - Register of Designated Properties [online]; inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert)
ECOLE TECHNIQUE, 1947-48 (Architecture Batiment Construction, ii, Dec. 1947, 37)
COTEAU ROUGE, QUE., Roman Catholic school, for the Longueuil School Commissioners, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Oct. 1949, 142)
JACQUES CARTIER, QUE., Roman Catholic school, for the Longueuil School Commissioners, 1949-50 (C.R., lxii, Oct. 1949, 143)
BOUCHERVILLE, QUE., residence for Marion Langevin, Marie-Victorin Boulevard, near the Arboretum, c. 1950 (inf. Yves Guillet, St. Lambert)