Other municipal advances during Mayor Kiel´s 12 years in office included the enactment of the City’s first Zoning Law, the construction of the North Market Street Dock, the widening of Washington Boulevard, and installation of the Waterworks filtration plant. Koch Hospital, the City Jail, Children’s Buildings, a school for retarded children, and the industrial homes for boys and girls were built. The City acquired City Hospital number two (Homer Phillips) for Negroes. New playgrounds and community centers were opened.

Mayor Kiel had been born in St. Louis on February 21, 1871. He was educated in the St. Louis public schools and Smith Academy. Under his father he learned the bricklayer´s trade. He progressed to vice president and then president of Kiel and Daues Contracting Company and had a part in erecting Soldan, Central and McKinley high schools, the Missouri, Delmonte, Loew´s State and Ambassador theaters, and the Post-Dispatch building, Coronado Hotel, Eighteenth Street Garage, Municipal Auditorium, and Hamilton-Brown building.

In 1892 he married Miss Irene H. Moonan of St. Louis. They had two sons and two daughters.

Following his last term as Mayor, Mr. Kiel went back into the building business and continued to be a civic leader. Governor Caulfield appointed him president of the St. Louis Police Board. His firm built the Municipal Auditorium that bore his name. He died November 26, 1942. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery at St. Louis.