James Gamble Rogers

A tribute to Rogers in the Memorial Quadrangle, Lee Lawrie, sculptor.

Rogers' Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University's Branford College.

James Gamble Rogers (March 3, 1867 – October 1, 1947) was an American architect. A proponent of what came to be known as Collegiate Gothic architecture, he is best known for his academic commissions at Yale University, Columbia University, Northwestern University, and elsewhere.

Biography Rogers was born in Bryan Station, Kentucky, on March 3, 1867, to James M. and Katharine Gamble Rogers. whose membership included several other notable architects. He received his B.A. in 1889, and is responsible for many of the Gothic Revival structures at Yale University built in the 1910s through the mid-1930s, as well as the university's master plan in 1924. Gamble Rogers Middle School, and Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach on Florida's east coast.

James Gamble Rogers' architectural drawings and photographs are now held in the Dept. of Drawings & Archives in the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in New York. A number of his built works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Buildings

Lees Building (1893), Chicago, Illinois (now demolished) Hyde Park Union Church (1906), Chicago, Illinois Laurel Court Mansion (1907), Cincinnati, Ohio, also known as Peter G. Thomson House (residence of his aunt Laura Gamble Thomson), NRHP-listed The Edward S. Harkness House (1908), 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, the organization they founded for their philanthropic work. Designated a landmark in 1967. Shelby County Courthouse (1909), Memphis, Tennessee Federal Courthouse (1913), New Haven, CT. Plan and buildings of The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College (1913), Tulane University, New Orleans Brooks Museum of Art (1913), Memphis, Tennessee. The former Bridgeport High School, now City Hall (1914–16), Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Yale Club of New York City (1915), Midtown Manhattan. Burnham Park Plaza (1915), Chicago. Hsiang Ya Hospital (1918) in Changsa, China. Harkness Memorial Quadrangle (later renovated and subdivided by Rogers in 1933 into Branford and Saybrook Colleges) and Harkness Memorial Tower (1921), Yale University. The Goodwyn (1922), Memphis, Tennessee Yale's General Plan (1924) Bob Cook Boat House (1924), Yale University. English Country Estate (1926), 990 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, Illinois Dyche Stadium (1926), Northwestern University (demolished in 2024). Wieboldt Hall (1926), Northwestern University, Chicago campus Methodist Church (1926), now University United Methodist Church, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Yeamans Hall Club (1926), Hanahan, South Carolina Ward Memorial Building (1926), Northwestern University, Chicago campus (funded by Elizabeth Ward in honor of her late husband, mail order and department store magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward.) Beta Theta Pi (1927), Fraternity Row, Yale University. James Gamble Rogers House (1927), 424 West Mountain Road, Ridgefield, CT, in NRHP-listed West Mountain Historic District Psi Upsilon (1928), later the Fence Club, Fraternity Row, Yale University Harkness Pavilion (1928), NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital Ossining High School (1928), Ossining, New York Vanderbilt School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1928), Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Neurological Institute of New York (1928), NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. College of Physicians and Surgeons (1928), Columbia University Medical Center Presbyterian Hospital Building (1928), NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health (1929), Columbia University Medical Center. School of Education (1930), New York University, Greenwich Village. Sterling Memorial Library (1930), Yale University. Delta Kappa Epsilon (1930), Fraternity Row, Yale University. Sterling Law Building (1931), Yale University. Alpha Delta Phi (1931), 215 Park Street, Fraternity Row, Yale University. University Theater and Drama School (1931 renovation), Yale University. Aetna Home Office (1931), Hartford, CT. Phi Gamma Delta / Vernon Hall (1932), 217 Park Street, Fraternity Row, Yale University. Hall of Graduate Studies (1932), Yale University. Jonathan Edwards College (1932) including Weir Hall addition, Yale University. Pierson College (1932), Yale University. Davenport College (1932), Yale University. Briton Hadden Memorial Building (1932), Yale Daily News Deering Library (1933), Northwestern University, Evanston campus. Trumbull College (1933), Yale University. Berkeley College (1933), Yale University. Butler Library (1934), Columbia University, (as South Hall; renamed in 1946 in honor of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the university from 1902 to 1945) Timothy Dwight College (1935), Yale University. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital (1939), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center. Scott Hall / Cahn Auditorium (1940), Northwestern University, Evanston campus. Harkness Chapel (1940), Connecticut College, New London. Harkness Hall, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. Riegel Ridge Community Center, Co. Rt. 519, approximately 1.5 mi N of NJ-PA state line, Holland Township, Milford, NJ, NRHP-listed Rutherford Health Department, 303 N. Church St., Murfreesboro, TN, NRHP-listed