Background
Pliny Rogers was born in 1882 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.
Pliny Rogers was born in 1882 in Saginaw, Michigan, United States.
He received a public school education, and at the age of twenty entered the Architectural School at Cornell University.
Mr. Rogers began his career in New York as draftsman in the office of Tracy and Swartwout, and shortly after was promoted to the position of Chief Designer for the firm.
In 1911 he was invited to become head of the drafting department in Mr. Litchfield’s office, and in the following years was largely responsible for the design of several notable public buildings. Among the most important should be mentioned the Public Library and the J. J. Hill Reference Library, both in St. Paul, Minn., completed in 1915. During World War I Mr. Rogers assisted in planning buildings for "Yorkshire Village,’’ an industrial town near Camden, N. J., built for the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
During the early 1920’s he planned a number of apartment houses in New York, one in New Rochelle, Gymnasium at Macalester College, St. Paul, and many suburban residences in New York and Connecticut.