friend, Augustus (Gus) O'Dell. The firm secured a small number of important commissions, including the Victor Vaughan House dormitory at the University of Michigan, Maire Elementary School in Grosse Pointe, and the Mark Twain Branch Library in Detroit, supplemented with reconstruction necessitated by the widening of Woodward Avenue, and by insurance re-valuations of existing buildings. Beginning in 1935, Rowland was hired by Edwin S. George to design a Gothic cathedral, later known as Kirk in the Hills. The church was to have been constructed on land owned by George adjoining his suburban home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, however, the funds available were insufficient to proceed with construction. In 1946, George realized that by incorporating his existing suburban home into the church to house administrative activities, the cost of construction would be greatly reduced. Rowland approved of this revision, but died before he could redraw the plans. The firm of George D. Mason & Co. was hired in 1947 to draw new plans for the church and oversee construction and the church was completed in 1958. Rowland was a member of the Chandler Park Partnership, a group of nineteen architects and engineers that designed Parkside housing project (1935–1938) in Detroit. During World War II, Rowland was employed by the firm Giffels & Valet in their office at Naval Station Norfolk. Among the structures he designed during that period was the David Adams Memorial Chapel and Our Lady of Victory Chapel in the base chapel building. Rowland Designed Structures T. B. Rayl Company Building (1915) Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan; designed by Rowland for Baxter and O'Dell, featured an early use of colored terra-cotta. Designs for George D. Mason, 1902 to 1909 Pontchartrain Hotel (1907), Detroit, Michigan Designs for Malcomson & Higginbotham, 1912 to 1915 Northern High School (1915), Detroit, Michigan Southeastern High School (1915), Detroit, Michigan Isabell F. Thirkell Elementary School (1915), Virginia Park Historic District, Detroit, Michigan Northeastern High School (1916), Detroit, Michigan Anna M. Joyce School (1916), Detroit, Michigan Nordstrum School (1916), Detroit, Michigan Harms Elementary School (1917), Detroit, Michigan Designs for Albert Kahn Associates, 1910, and 1915 to 1922 Hill Auditorium (with Ernest Wilby) (1913), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Harlan Hatcher University of Michigan Library (with Ernest Wilby) (1915–1920), Ann Arbor, Michigan Langley Field Hangars and Executive Buildings, including the current Air Combat Command Headquarters Building (1917), Point Comfort, Virginia Rockwell Field (now part of Naval Air