John Judson
(Jack) RowlandAIA

(1903–1963)

Rowland graduated from the University of Illinois with a BS in Architecture in 1927 and a BFA from Yale in 1928. He also attended the Lake Forest School for Architects and Landscape Architects. From 1928-1933 he was a draftsman for Charles Platt in NYC then became an Associate Professor of Architecture at Georgia Tech 1933-1938. Rowland came to Kinston NC and started a firm in 1938. As partner with Wooten and Rowland, he designed the 1939 Lenoir County Courthouse; the 1949 Grainger Stadium, below, and the 1949 Kinston Coca-Cola Bottling Plant. He was a partner with Simpson and Ferguson and died of a heart attack. He was featured in Kinston Magazine in November 2017. If you know more about Rowland or his houses, please write us.