Roger Harrington Bullard (May 7, 1884 – March 2, 1935) was an American

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Early life and education

Bullard was born on May 7, 1884 in

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to Lewis Henderson Bullard and Mary Perrin Bullard. His family lived in a home at 147-38 Ash Avenue in

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from 1884 to 1909. He was educated in Flushing and graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture in

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in 1907.

Career

After graduating high school, he worked as an architect with the Office of Public Works (Auxiliar Obras Publicas) for the next two years in

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. Returning to the U.S., he worked for six years under

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before becoming a partner in the firm of Goodwin, Bullard & Woolsey. In 1921, he opened his own office at 607 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. He received an honorable mention from the

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for an apartment house in Manhattan (1931), and a Gold Medal from Better Homes in America in the Small House Architectural Competition (1933) for a small cottage he built for Samuel Agar Salvage in

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. Bullard, along with architect Clifford C. Wendehack, designed the model home known as " America's Little House" which opened in 1934 and was surrounded by skyscrapers on the northeast corner of Park Avenue and 39th Street in Manhattan. In 1912, he married Annie Sturges, daughter of Henry Cady Sturges, and they had four children. Annie was a niece of the first wife of

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and through that connection Bullard built several houses for the extended

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. Perhaps most notably he built

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at Glen Cove on Long Island, which he completed for Junius Spencer Morgan III, which is said to be the inspiration for the West Egg mansion of

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in ''

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''. Another notable

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mansion he designed was Rynwood for Samuel Agar Salvage, the "father of

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" in the United States. He gained a reputation for designing large homes and country clubs, most on

. The clubs he designed included the

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; Plainfield Country Club in

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; Oakland Golf Club in

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; and the

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in River Hills, Wisconsin. His private clients included the

; Sir Samuel Agar Salvage; Harold Hartshorne;

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; and Seth Low Pierrepont. Bullard was a member of the executive committee of the New York Chapter of the

and the

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. He was also a member of Lloyd Warren's

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* Plainfield Country Club in

* Oakland Golf Club in

in River Hills, Wisconsin

Other notable projects

in Glen Cove, Long Island for Junius Spencer Morgan III * America's Little House in

* Rynwood Estate in Long Island, for Sir Samuel Agar Salvage * St. Joseph's Chapel at the

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, in

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Awards

* Gold medal from Better Homes in America in the Small House Architectural Competition (1933) for the cottage on the Rynwood Estate * Honorable Mention from the

(1931) for an apartment house in Manhattan

Death

Bullard died on March 2, 1935 in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bullard, Roger 1884 births 1935 deaths Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni 20th-century American architects Architects from New York City