Occupation Architect Name George Rogers | Role Architect | |
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Born 1870 Illinois Died 1945, Mobile, Alabama, United States Buildings Van Antwerp Building, The Temple Downtown, Mobile Public Library Structures Van Antwerp Building, The Temple Downtown, National African American, Ben May Main Library, Emanuel Building | ||
George Bigelow Rogers (1870–1945) was an American architect, best known for the wide variety of buildings that he designed in Mobile, Alabama, including mansions in historic European styles and other private residences, churches and public buildings, and the first 11-story skyscraper in Mobile and the Southeast United States. Many of his structures have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Biography
Rogers was born in Illinois in 1870. After attending local schools there, he studied painting in France. He apprenticed as an architect from 1894 to 1898 at a firm in Hartford, Connecticut. While en route to a vacation in Mexico in 1901, he stopped in Mobile.
Rogers was quite taken with the city and decided to settle there. He went on to design many of what today are among its best known buildings. 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.
Rogers died in Mobile in 1945.
His architectural library is housed in the archives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.