George Bigelow Rogers

George Bigelow Rogers
Van Antwerp Building, taken shortly after completion
Born	1870 Illinois
Died	1945 Mobile, Alabama
Work
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. 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

George Fearn House in Mobile, Alabama (1904), on the National Register of Historic Places
Van Antwerp Building in Mobile, Alabama (1907), on the National Register of Historic Places
David R. Burgess Mansion at 1209 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama (1907)
Tacon-Bellingrath House at 60 South Ann Street in Mobile, Alabama (1908) (Destroyed)
Dave Patton House in Mobile, Alabama (1915), on the National Register of Historic Places
Albert Bush House at 1203 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama (1915)
Government Street Methodist Church at 901 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama (1904–1917)
Scottish Rite Temple in Mobile, Alabama (1921), on the National Register of Historic Places
Murphy High School Complex in Mobile, Alabama (1926), on the National Register of Historic Places
Bellingrath Gardens and Home in Mobile, Alabama (1927), on the National Register of Historic Places
Mobile Public Library in Mobile, Alabama (1928), on the National Register of Historic Places
Davis Avenue Branch of the Mobile Public Library in Mobile, Alabama (1931), on the National Register of Historic Places
Leo Brown House at 1668 Government Street in Mobile, Alabama (1937)

References

^ Welsh, Frank S. (2007). "Paint, Caen Stone, and Acoustical Plaster at the Public Library in Mobile, Alabama". Association for Preservation Technology International (APT). JSTOR 40004161.
^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-03-07. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ "AIA Fellows". Alabama Council of The American Institute of Architects (AIA). http://www.aiaalabama.org/_assets/pdf/AIA-fellows.pdf. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
^ "Bellingrath Gardens & Home Timeline". Bellingrath Gardens & Home. http://www.bellingrath.org/75th-timeline.html. Retrieved 30 January 2010.
^ "Mitchell Archives". Historic Mobile Preservation Society. http://www.historicmobile.org/Archives08.htm. Retrieved 30 January 2010.

Persondata
Name	Rogers, George Bigelow
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1869
Place of birth	Illinois
Date of death	1945
Place of death	Mobile, Alabama