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(b Bryants Station, KY, March 3, 1867; d New York, Oct 1, 1947). American architect. He graduated from Yale University, New Haven, CT, with a degree in Fine Arts in 1889. He began his architectural career in the office of William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago. In 1893 he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and won medals in architecture and construction, graduating with honours in 1899. Afterwards, he returned to Chicago and designed the Winton Building (1904) on Michigan Avenue and 13th Street, in which he made an early use of the reinforced concrete frame technology. In 1905 he opened a short-lived practice in New York with Herbert D. Hale (1866–1909). After Hale retired, Rogers rose to national prominence when he won the competition for the New Haven Post Office and Court-House (1911–19). This, like many of his early projects, combined skilful planning with a boldly massed composition and the scholarly use of Roman and Renaissance precedents....