{{Short description|American architect (1884–1935)}} {{Infobox Architect | name = Roger Bullard | image = Roger_Bullard.png | caption = Bullard in 1925 | birth_date = {{birth date text|May 7, 1884}} | death_date = {{death date and age|March 2, 1935|May 7, 1884}} | birth_place = New York, New York, U.S. | death_place = Plandome, New York | alma_mater = Columbia University School of Architecture | occupation = architect | significant_buildings = Salutation, America's Little House, Rynwood, St. Joseph's Chapel | significant_projects = Maidstone Club | awards = * Gold medal from Better Homes in America in the Small House Architectural Competition (1933) <br> * Honorable Mention from the American Institute of Architects (1931) | spouse = {{marriage|Annie Sturges|1912}} | children = 4 }} '''Roger Harrington Bullard''' (May 7, 1884&nbsp;&ndash; March 2, 1935) was an American architect.

== Early life and education == Bullard was born on May 7, 1884, in New York City to Lewis Henderson Bullard and Mary Perrin Bullard.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His family lived in a home at 147-38 Ash Avenue in Flushing, Queens from 1884 to 1909.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rhoades |first=Liz |date=May 24, 2001 |url=https://www.qchron.com/editions/north/flushing-mansion-may-get-new-lease-on-life-as-museum/article_af8315fb-9cc4-5285-9311-8a38b2a8e0b6.html |title=Flushing Mansion May Get New Lease On Life As Museum |work=Queens Chronicle |access-date=May 14, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ferris |first=Marc |date=October 5, 2001 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/96943961/ |title=Eyesore or a Relic? |work=Newsday |access-date=May 14, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Bullard was educated at public schools and the Fairfield Institute.<ref name=":2" /> He graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture in 1907.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://americanaristocracy.com/people/roger-harrington-bullard#bio |title=Roger Harrington Bullard|website=American Aristocracy|access-date=April 29, 2025}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> While at Columbia, he was a member of St. Anthony Hall.<ref name=":232">[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/386855-catalogue-of-the-members-of-the-fraternity-of-delta-psi-1912 Catalogue of the members of the fraternity of Delta Psi] - Revised and corrected to August 15, 1912. 5th edition. Sherman P. Haight, 1912. via Family Search</ref><ref name=":2" />

== 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 Cuba.<ref name=":2" /> Returning to the U.S., he worked for ten years under Grosvenor Atterbury in Long Island before becoming a partner in the firm of Goodwin, Bullard & Woolsey.<ref name=":2" /> In 1921, he opened his own office at 607 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.<ref name=":2" />

He received an honorable mention from the American Institute of Architects 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 Glen Head, New York.<ref name=":1">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/03/26/archives/better-homes-award-won-by-new-yorker-roger-h-bullards-design-for.html|newspaper=The New York Times|title=BETTER HOMES AWARD WON BY NEW YORKER; Roger H. Bullard's Design for Cottage Wins Gold Medal in National Competition|date=March 26, 1934|access-date=April 30, 2025}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 7, 1934 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/11/07/archives/model-home-opens-throng-inspects-it-queues-wait-all-day-to-see.html |title=Model Home Opens; Throng Inspects It |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 10, 2025}}</ref>

Through his wife's connection to J. P. Morgan, Bullard built several houses for the extended Morgan family. Perhaps most notably he built Salutation 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 Jay Gatsby in ''The Great Gatsby''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldcoastlibrary.org/local_history/roger-harrington-bullard/|title=Roger Harrington Bullard|website=Gold Coast Library|access-date=April 29, 2025}}</ref> Another notable Gold Coast, Long Island mansion he designed was Rynwood for Samuel Agar Salvage, the "father of rayon" in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=L |first=Zach |date=February 26, 2009 |title=Rynwood |url=http://www.oldlongisland.com/2009/02/rynwood.html |website=Old Long Island |access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref>

He gained a reputation for designing large homes and country clubs, most on Long Island. The clubs he designed included the Maidstone Club at East Hampton, New York; Plainfield Country Club in Edison, New Jersey; Oakland Golf Club in Bayside, Queens; and the Milwaukee Country Club in River Hills, Wisconsin.<ref name=":3">{{cite journal|url=https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1925-03.pdf|date=March 1925|author=Roger H. Bullard|page=133|publisher=Rogers & Manson|journal=The Architectural Forum, golf and country club reference number|title=The Architecture of Country Clubs|access-date=April 29, 2025}}</ref> His private clients included the Morgan family; Samuel Agar Salvage; Harold Hartshorne; Paul Pennoyer Sr.; and Seth Low Pierrepont.<ref name=":2" />

Bullard was a member of the executive committee of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Architectural League of New York.<ref name=":2" /> He was also a member of Lloyd Warren's Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the New York Society of Architects.

== Awards ==

* Gold medal from Better Homes in America in the Small House Architectural Competition (1933) for the cottage on the Rynwood Estate<ref name=":2" /> * Honorable Mention from the American Institute of Architects (1931) for an apartment house in Manhattan

== Personal life == In 1912, Bullard married Annie Sturges, daughter of Henry Cady Sturges.<ref name=":2" /> She was a niece of the first wife of J. P. Morgan. The couple had four children: Roger, Henry, Jonathan, and Mary.<ref name=":2" />

Bullard died from pneumonia on March 2, 1935, in Plandome, New York.<ref name=":2">{{cite news |date=March 2, 1935 |title=Roger H Bullard Dies in Plandome |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-obituary-for-roger-h-bullard/96912555/ |access-date=April 29, 2025 |newspaper=Times Union |location=Brooklyn |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Notable works ==

===Country clubs and golf courses=== * Maidstone Club in East Hampton, New York<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> * Plainfield Country Club in Edison, New Jersey<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> * Oakland Golf Club in Bayside, Queens<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":2" /> * Milwaukee Country Club in River Hills, Wisconsin<ref name=":3" />

===Other notable projects=== * Salutation in Glen Cove, Long Island for Junius Spencer Morgan III<ref name=":2" /> * America's Little House in Manhattan, New York<ref name=":2" /> * Rynwood Estate in Long Island, for Sir Samuel Agar Salvage<ref name=":2" /> * St. Joseph's Chapel at the Kent School, in Kent, Connecticut<ref name=":2" />

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