page_title: Charles P. Rogers
section_title: Successful industrial pioneer
hierarchical_section_title: Charles P. Rogers / Successful industrial pioneer
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context_page_description: Charles Platt Rogers was an early American industrialist, New York City socialite and charter member and director of the Fourteenth Street Bank of New York. His longest lasting achievement was the founding the eponymous company Charles P Rogers & Co. established in 1855. This is longest continuously operating bedding manufacturing and retail company in the United States. The company continues operations to this day and provided more beds and bedding to the finest hotels and clubs than any other company during its first hundred years. Charles was a pioneer in both the manufacturing processes and importation of brass and iron bedstead and a beloved member of the business community of New York; after his death he was referred to as the "dean of the bedding manufacturers of New York City…" in The Furniture Manufacturer and Artisan Periodical, volume 15, 1918.
context_section_description: Rogers soon became the leading importer as well as manufacturer of high-end brass and iron bedsteads and bedding in New York City. After being highly recommended in the 1870 New York Shopping Guide, he was supplying not only the social elite of the city, but also furnishing the major New York luxury hotels such as The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, St. Regis, Hotel Manhattan, Holland House, the Herald Square and other fine hotels. The renowned quality and reputation of the company soon led to supplying more distant hotels such as The New Willard in Wash. DC, The Hotel Belvedere in Baltimore and The New St. Charles in New Orleans, LA. Rogers moved the company operations to 264 to 266 6th Ave. and 17th St. in Manhattan to accommodate the increasing demand for his products in both domestic and commercial applications. He was also active in supplying wholesale supplies to other furniture makers in the city including the Herter Brothers. Chas also opened a second retail location at 89 S. Salina Street in Syracuse, New York in 1882 and had moved locations to 346–348 S. Warren Street, Syracuse by 1885.
  In 1894, Rogers took on his first true partner, his nephew William O. Rogers (born 1864, died January 1, 1944, Madison, New Jersey.) William was the son of Charles' older brother, William Oscar Rogers (born April 12, 1825, New York City, died December 17, 1919, Madison, New Jersey) who was the New Orleans superintendent of schools and Second President of Tulane University, Acting 1899–1900. Ironically and much to his New York families displeasure, he was also a Confederate soldier, having moved to New Orleans for health reasons in 1848 after a horse riding accident.
  As the bed business flourished due to increased availability of home oriented print advertising in publications such as McClure's, Scribner's Magazine, The Century Magazine, Harper's MagazineMaking of America Project (1896). Harper's Magazine. Harper's Magazine Co. and The Catholic World, more responsibility fell on William Rogers for running the day-to-day operations of the highly lucrative company. Chas and Anna spent more time at socialite vacation destinations such as Richfield Springs, New York and Cooperstown, New York attending parties and holding elegant dinners. Chas and Anna were staying at the Spring House Hotel in Richfield when it was consumed by fire in 1897 along with New York city Mayor William L. Strong. As a result of the fire by 1910 had purchased the famous Crossways Cottage in Cooperstown, NY for hosting their social events. Chas P. Rogers Co. hotels serviced now included New York Biltmore Hotel, The Vanderbilt and The Belmont.
caption: Servicing the finest hotels in New York and beyond fueled Chas P Rogers success and fortune between 1870 and 1915.
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