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3 unusual facts about James Gamble Rogers


Adams Avenue

the Shelby County Courthouse on, Adams Avenue designed by James Gamble Rogers; and the Woodruff-Fontaine House.

Butler Library

Proposed as "South Hall" by the University's former President Nicholas Murray Butler as expansion plans for Low Memorial Library stalled, the new library was funded by Edward Harkness, a Columbia alumnus who was also donor of Yale's residential college system, and designed by his favorite architect, James Gamble Rogers.

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the building is in the scholastic Gothic style, with whimsical and emblematic decorative details, stained glass windows, and ornamented ceilings.



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