Griswold, Roger, 1892-1973.

Roger Griswold was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 9, 1892. He graduated from Milton Academy in the spring of 1910 and received his A.B. degree from Harvard in 1914. Griswold sailed to Buenos Aires soon after graduation to work for the River Plate Trading Company until May 1915. He joined the American Ambulance in Paris later that year, and became a member of the Section Two, American Field Service in 1916. Griswold became an officer in the United States Army in 1917, training with the 15th Field Artillery at Pine Camp, New York and in Plattsburg, New York. He served in Germany with Battery A of First Battalion Field Artillery until he resigned his commission in 1919.

Later that year, Griswold oversaw the building of the schooner Lloyd W. Berry, co-owned with Harold Peters (AB 1910), and traveled around the North Atlantic in it for eleven months in 1920. From 1922 to 1925, he studied as a special student at the Architectural School at M.I.T. He married Penelope B. Parkman in June 1923; together they had four children. Griswold joined the architecture firm of Little and Russell in 1926, becoming a partner in 1929. Together with Millard Gulick (AB 1913), Griswold founded the architecture firm Griswold & Gulick.

Griswold served in World War II as a ground officer, major and lieutenant colonel, Air Corps, and from 1944 to 1945, served with the Office of Strategic Services in Algeria, France and Germany. After the war, Griswold resumed his architectural practice with a number of different partners, retiring as active partner from Griswold, Boyden, Wylde & Ames in 1961. Griswold's first wife died in 1959, and Griswold married Christine de M. Goutiere in June 1960. Griswold retired in 1973, and died later that year.