Ely Jacques Kahn

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Ely Jacques Kahn (1884 - 1972) was an American commercial architect most active in New York City between 1925 and 1931.

Kahn was born in New York, the only son of a prosperous Austrian and French Jewish family. He attended Columbia University. Kahn was the father of noted New Yorker magazine writer Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., and author Ayn Rand worked in Kahn's office as research for The Fountainhead.