Eliza Newkirk grew up in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, and pursued undergraduate degrees in art and math at Wellesley College, beginning in 1896 and graduating in 1900.

[1] She opened her own firm in 1913 and designed, renovated, and added to facilities at Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts and Wellesley; as well as residential projects.

[3][4] Newkirk toured England with her colleague Eleanor Manning and wrote several articles in House Beautiful in 1926.

[1] Newkirk married George Benjamin Rogers, the head master of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, in 1924.

[1] Eliza Newkirk Rogers shaped the art history department at Wellesley,[5] and left behind numerous students.