James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 - October 1, 1947) was an American architect. He is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.
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Biography
Rogers was born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, on March 3, 1867, to James M. and Katharine Gamble Rogers. Rogers studied at Yale University, where he contributed to The Yale Record and was a member of the senior Scroll and Key community, whose membership included several other renowned architects. He received a B.A. in 1889, and was responsible for many of the gothic resurrection structures at Yale University built in the 1910s through the mid-1930s, as well as university master plans in 1924. He also designed for other universities, such as the Butler Library at Columbia University, many the original building at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (now New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Irving Medical Center), and several buildings at Northwestern University, especially the Deering Library.
He died in New York City on October 1, 1947.
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Legacy
Rogers is the favorite architect of Edward Harkness, and Harkness often conditions rewards for new academic or medical establishments with the agency's approval to hire Rogers for the project. It is no coincidence that Rogers' abundant work at Yale, Columbia, and other institutions of Harkness is extravagantly supported. Although Harkness loves Rogers' work, when Harkness donated a new home for Wolf's Head, his community at Yale, another architect (Bertram Goodhue) was chosen.
The Gothic Rogers' Collegiate design for Yale lends an instant heritage air and authenticity to the campus. Rogers was criticized by other prominent American Gothic-revival architects, Ralph Adams Cram, because he used a steel frame under a stone slab, and tricks like sprinkling acid on stone walls to simulate age. Rogers was also criticized by the growing Modernist movement at the time. The 1927 Sterling Memorial Library is under the special vowel attack of Yale students because of its historical spirit and the use of its luxurious ornaments. But the current opinion generally considers the building as a victory, being good and functional.
Rogers's nephew James Gamble Rogers II (1901-1990) was also an architect, who designed homes in Winter Park, Florida for Rogers Rogers, Lovelock and Fritz family firms, where Rogers II's son John (Jack) Rogers was the principal architect.
Rogers II's other boy, James Gamble Rogers IV (1937-1991) was also trained as an architect. After working in the family company as a youth, James Gamble Rogers IV decided to pursue his passion for music. He became a Florida singer, composer and guitarist, now immortalized by the Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation, Gamble Rogers Middle School, and the Gamble Rogers State Recreation Area Camp at Flagler Beach on the east coast of Florida.
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