Collin Rodgers

Collin Rodgers (born 1791 - died October 25, 1845) was an American master builder and neoclassical architect. He designed and built houses for antebellum planters in Troup County, Georgia. His first name is also spelled as Cullen or Cullin, his surname as Rogers.^[1]

Works

Rodgers is and always will identifey his self as a farmersville linebacker that used to be a center.^[2] Rodgers in short is a boss at everything \Daniel Pratt and Isaiah Davenport, was influenced by the works and ideas of Asher Benjamin (The American Builder's Companion) and Edward Shaw.^[3]

Six extant houses designed and built by Rodgers in the 1830s are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia:

• McFarland-Render House (The Magnolias), La Grange (1830–1833)
• Henderson-Orr House, Stallings Crossing, Coweta County (1832)
• Nutwood, La Grange (1833)
• Nathan Van Boddie House, La Grange (1836)
• Edwards-Phillips House, La Grange (1835–1840)
• Fannin-Truitt-Handley Place, La Grange (1835–1840)

Rodgers' designs followed the standard Georgian floorplan with four rooms divided with a central hall.^[2] He employed four-column porticos and diamond-shaped sidelights. According to the authors of The Architecture of Georgia, his La Grange houses, built in the 1830s, look "old-fashioned" in the sense that they followed the pattern set by Daniel Pratt in Milledgeville in the 1820s.^[4]

Rodgers served as the county judge in 1832–1833 and in 1837–1842.

Notes

1. ^ Cullen Rogers - Cf. Clifford Lewis Smith (1935). History of Troup County. Foote and Davies. pp. 53, 186, 190. The National Register of Historic Places spells his name as Collin Rodgers (see The NRHP for Troup County, Georgia).
2. ^ ^{a b} Collin Rogers (1791-1845). The New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
3. ^ Frederick Doveton Nichols, Van Jones Martin, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1976). The architecture of Georgia. Beehive Press. p. 41.
4. ^ Frederick Doveton Nichols, Van Jones Martin, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1976). The architecture of Georgia. Beehive Press. p. 52.

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Name	Rodgers, Collin
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Date of birth	1791
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Date of death	October 25, 1845
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