Rogers House (Morgantown, West Virginia)

Rogers House is a historic home located at Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia.

The original section of the house is in brick, whereas the addition, designed by noted Morgantown architect Elmer F. Jacobs and built in 1905-1906 is wood frame.

The Rogers House was one of the first large residences built at the outer edge of Morgantown's contemporary city limits.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Morgantown witnessed an intense period of industrialization and demographic growth that engulfed the Rogers House.

John Rogers was a prominent local businessman who owned a large amount of property as well as saw, grist, and paper mills.

According to Earl Core's The Monongalia Story, the Trinity Episcopal Parish was organized at Thomas Roger's house in 1876.

The Rogers family rented rooms to students, which was a common practice at the time because there were no university dormitories.

Instead, the Fund leased the Rogers House to the University Christian Council (UCC), an ecumenical campus ministry organization, in 1983.

[5] In late twentieth-century Morgantown, many campus ministers, particularly those of liberal Protestant denominations, worked closely with student activists and were involved in social activism.

[4] In the 1970s, campus ministers in the Bennett House were involved in a number of student and community projects, including draft, drug, and abortion counseling.