George Bigelow Rogers

George Bigelow Rogers

Van Antwerp Building, taken shortly after completion
Born 1870
Illinois
Died 1945
Mobile, Alabama
Occupation Architect
Buildings Van Antwerp Building
Scottish Rite Temple
Mobile Public Library

George Bigelow Rogers (1870–1945) was an American architect, best known for the wide variety of buildings that he designed in Mobile, Alabama.

Biography

Rogers was born in Illinois in 1870, he studied painting in France, then apprenticed from 1894 to 1898 as an architect in Hartford, Connecticut. He stopped in Mobile in 1901, while en route to a vacation in Mexico. He decided to stay in the Gulf Coast city and went on to design many of what today are among its best known buildings.[1][2] He was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1941, an honor bestowed on fewer than two percent of all registered architects in the United States.[3] He died in Mobile in 1945.[4] His architectural library is housed in the archives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.[5]

Projects

See also

References

  1. ↑ Welsh, Frank S. (2007). "Paint, Caen Stone, and Acoustical Plaster at the Public Library in Mobile, Alabama". APT Bulletin. 38 (1). JSTOR 40004161.
  2. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ "AIA Fellows" (PDF). Alabama Council of The American Institute of Architects (AIA). Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  4. ↑ "Bellingrath Gardens & Home Timeline". Bellingrath Gardens & Home. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
  5. ↑ "Mitchell Archives". Historic Mobile Preservation Society. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
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