A tribute to Rogers in a Yale residential college

James Gamble Rogers (b. 1867, Kentucky - 1947) was an American architect. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (545x758, 68 KB) James Gamble Rogers, architect of many buildings at Yale University. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (545x758, 68 KB) James Gamble Rogers, architect of many buildings at Yale University. ... 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Frankfort Largest city Louisville Area  Ranked 37th  - Total 40,444 sq mi (104,749 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...

He attended Yale University, where he was a member of Scroll and Key, a senior society whose membership included several other notable architects. He received his B.A. in 1889, and is responsible for many of the gothic structures at Yale University built in the 1910s and 1920s, as well as the university's overall plan. He designed for other universities as well, including such buildings as the Butler Library at Columbia University, many of the original buildings at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (now known as the Columbia University Medical Center), and several structures at Northwestern University. The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society that was established by John Addison Porter and others at Yale University in 1842. ... Yale redirects here. ... Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... New York-Presbyterian Hospital is a prominent university hospital in New York City, composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, each affiliated with an Ivy League University. ... Columbia University Medical Center is name of the medical complex associated with Columbia University located in Washington Heights area of Manhattan. ...

Rogers was philanthropist Edward Harkness's favorite architect, and Harkness would often condition a gift for a new academic or medical building upon the institution's agreement to hire Rogers for the project. It is thus no coincidence that Rogers' work is abundant at Yale, Columbia and other institutions Harkness supported lavishly. Edward Stephen Harkness (1874 - 1940) was an American philanthropist. ...

Rogers's nephew, James Gamble Rogers II (1901-1990) was also an architect, who designed homes in Winter Park, Florida for the Rogers family architecture firm Rogers, Lovelock and Fritz, where Rogers II's son John (Jack) Rogers is a principal architect. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Rogers II's other son, James Gamble Rogers IV (1937-1991) was also trained as an architect. After working in the family firm as a young man, James Gamble Rogers IV decided to pursue his passion for music. He became a noted Florida folksinger, composer and guitarist, now memorialized by the ([1]) Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation, Gamble Rogers Middle School, and Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach on Florida's east coast. James Gamble Rogers (January 31, 1937-October 10, 1991) was a renowned folk artist born in Winter Park, Florida. ... James Gamble Rogers (January 31, 1937-October 10, 1991) was a renowned folk artist born in Winter Park, Florida. ... Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area is a 144 acre Florida State Park located at Flagler Beach, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intra-Coastal Waterway on SR A1A. It is about 18 miles north of Daytona Beach and about 30 miles south of St. ...

Buildings

• Lees Building, Chicago, 1893 (now demolished)
• Hyde Park Union Church, Chicago, 1906
• The Harkness Mansion, 1 East 75th Street at Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Constructed as the residence of Edward and Mary Stillman Harkness in 1908. Currently the home of The Commonwealth Fund. Designated a landmark in 1967.
• Federal Courthouse, New Haven, 1913
• The Yale Club of New York City, Midtown Manhattan, 1915
• Burnham Park Plaza, Chicago, 1915
• Plan and buildings of The H.Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, New Orleans, 1913
• Saybrook College, Yale University, 1917
• Harkness Memorial Quadrangle (renovated and subdivided by Rogers in 1933 into Branford and Saybrook Colleges) and Harkness Memorial Tower, Yale University, 1921
• The Goodwyn, Memphis, Tennessee, 1922
• Yale's General Plan, 1924
• Bob Cook Boat House, Yale University, 1924
• Ryan Field, Northwestern University, 1926
• Wieboldt Hall, Northwestern University, Chicago campus, 1926
• Ward Memorial Building, Northwestern University, Chicago campus, 1926 (funded by Elizabeth Ward in honor of her late husband, mail order and department store magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward.)
• Beta Theta Pi, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1927
• Psi Upsilon, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1928
• Fence Club, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1928
• Harkness Pavillion, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928
• Vanderbilt School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928
• Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928
• College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928
• Presbyterian Hospital Building, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1928
• Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1929
• School of Education, New York University, Greenwich Village, 1930
• Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 1930
• Delta Kappa Epsilon, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1930
• Sterling Law Buildings, Yale University, 1931
• Alpha Delta Phi, 215 Park Street, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1931
• University Theater and Drama School, Yale University, 1931 (renovation)
• Phi Gamma Delta / Vernon Hall, 217 Park Street, Fraternity Row, Yale University, 1932
• Weir Hall addition, Yale University, 1932
• Hall of Graduate Studies, Yale University, 1932
• Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, 1932
• Pierson College, Yale University, 1932
• Davenport College, Yale University, 1932
• Deering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston campus, 1933
• Trumbull College, Yale University, 1933
• Berkeley College, Yale University, 1933
• Butler Library, Columbia University, 1934 (as South Hall; renamed in 1946 in honor of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the University from 1902 to 1945)
• Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, 1935
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center, 1939
• Scott Hall / Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, Evanston campus, 1940
• Harkness Chapel, Connecticut College, New London, 1940

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References

• James Gamble Rogers and the Architecture of Pragmatism, Aaron Betsky, MIT, 1994.
• The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida, Patrick and Debra McClane , 2004. ISBN 0-8130-2770-5
• The Campus Guide: Yale University, Patrick L. Pinnell, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999.
• Yale: A Pictorial History, Reuben A. Holden, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1967.