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Born: 7/17/1911, Died: 7/1/2000 Cornelius Van Reypen Bogert, Jr. was born in Bogota, NJ, the son of Evelyn T. Bogert and of an architect of the same name who practiced in that town. The younger Bogert attended Bogota High School and Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia, and like his father studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B. Arch. in 1934. He was a member of the Architectural Society and of the Hexagon Senior Society his final year. He worked as a draftsman for his father in the summers while still in school.After graduation, he found work as a commercial artist in the New York advertising firm of H. Stanley Rogerts. Later in the 1930s, he was employed in the office of George Howe; either before or after this he worked on the "Children's World" amusement area for 1938 World's Fair in New York. After World War II, Bogert was among the designers for the first houses of the Bryn Gweled homestead community in Bucks County, PA, along with Robert F. Bishop and Walter T. Robinson. In 1955, Bogert joined George M. Ewing Co., was made a partner in the successor firm, Alexander Ewing & Associates, in 1962, and continued as partner in successor firms, including Ewing Cole Erdman & Eubank. Bogert joined the national AIA in 1963. He was a member of Philadelphia Chapter, serving as recorder in 1965 and secretary in 1967.
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