Rogers Architecture Firm Celebrates 40 Years

Hight-Jackson Associates of Rogers is celebrating its 40-year anniversary with big projects across the gamut of its architectural capacity.

The highest profile job currently underway is the reassembly of the Bachman Wilson house on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art  in Bentonville. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the house was rescued from Millstone, New Jersey, and trucked into Bentonville by J. B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.

Another big project is the design of Bentonville West High School, set to be completed by the 2016-17 school year. Funded through a $73 million bond issue, the school is expected to serve about 2,250 students.

Hight-Jackson was founded in 1974, when, as the company likes to say, Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert were Wimbledon champs, and President Richard Nixon resigned.

Originally based in Coffeyville, Kansas, the firm opened a Rogers office in 1974 and hired Ron Shelby, who became the firm’s CEO. The company has an annual workload of about $80 million and employs 25 people.