George Bigelow Rogers

Who was George Bigelow Rogers?

George Bigelow Rogers 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. 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. He died in Mobile in 1945. His architectural library is housed in the archives of the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.