James Gamble Rogers 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.
Portrait by William Sergeant Kendall
A tribute to Rogers in the Memorial Quadrangle, Lee Lawrie, sculptor.
Butler Library at Columbia University
Rogers' Memorial Quadrangle at Yale University's Branford College.
Collegiate Gothic is an architectural style subgenre of Gothic Revival architecture, popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for college and high school buildings in the United States and Canada, and to a certain extent Europe. A form of historicist architecture, it took its inspiration from English Tudor and Gothic buildings. It has returned in the 21st century in the form of prominent new buildings at schools and universities including Cornell, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Washington University, and Yale.
Mitchell Tower (1901–1908), University of Chicago, Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, architects. Modeled after the Magdalen Tower (1492–1508), Oxford University (left).
Princeton University Graduate College (1913), Ralph Adams Cram
Willard Straight Hall (1925), Cornell University, William Adams Delano, architect
Law Quadrangle (1923–33), University of Michigan, York and Sawyer