Rowland grew up in Clinton, Michigan and in 1901 landed a job as an office boy for the Detroit firm of Rogers & MacFarlane, quickly moving on to the prestigious George D. Mason firm. In 1909 he joined the office of Albert Kahn, who had also apprenticed under Mason. In 1910, with the encouragement of both Mason and Kahn, Rowland attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Boston for a year. The combination of Rowland's natural design talent, his Harvard education and Detroit's healthy economy positioned him to make major cont ...

See also:

Wirt C. Rowland, Wirt C. Rowland - Biography, Wirt C. Rowland - Designs for Smith Hinchman & Grylls

Read more here: » Wirt C. Rowland: Encyclopedia II - Wirt C. Rowland - Biography