William Henry Miller was an American

United States

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 architect

Architect

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 and the first graduate of the architecture school

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University was established in 1871 as the School of Architecture with the hiring of Charles Babcock as the first Professor creating the first four-year course of study in architecture in the United States...

 at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

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.

Born in 1848 in Trenton, New York

Trenton, New York

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, Miller graduated from Cornell in 1872. Four years later, he married Emma Halsey of Ithaca.

He was the foremost architect in Ithaca and for Cornell for many years, designing over seventy buildings on and off campus including 9 fraternity houses. Among his buildings for Cornell were the President's House

Andrew Dickson White House

The Andrew Dickson White House, commonly referred to as the "A.D. White House," is a Second Empire house on the campus of Cornell University, designed by William Henry Miller and Charles Babcock...

, Barnes Hall

Barnes Hall

Barnes Hall is a student-services building located in the center of the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. It was built in 1887 in a Romanesque style and has 21,618 sq ft.-History:...

, University Library, Boardman Hall, infirmaries, and Prudence Risley Hall

Risley Residential College

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. Among the fraternity houses were Deke House, Sigma Chi's chapter house, Chi Phi

Chi Phi

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 Lodge, and two former mansions: "Greystone Mansion," originally owned by silent movie actress Irene Castle, and the Jennie McGraw

Jennie McGraw

Jennie McGraw was born in Dryden, NY in 1840 and died in Ithaca, New York on September 30, 1881. She was the daughter of John McGraw, millionaire philanthropist to Cornell. After her father's death in 1877, McGraw inherited his large fortune...

-Willard Fiske

Willard Fiske

Daniel Willard Fiske was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamilton College in 1847. He joined the Psi Upsilon but was suspended for a student prank at the end of his...

 mansion, modeled on a French chateau, which became the Chi Psi

Chi Psi

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 fraternity house and burned down in 1906. In Ithaca, he also designed the Elizabeth Van Cleef and Robert Treman estates, the Jane McGraw mansion (1878), the Edward G. Wyckoff mansion in Cornell Heights, Ithaca High School

Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York)

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, Cascadilla High School, the Stewart Street School, the Savings Bank, the Congregational, Baptist and Unitarian churches, and many other public and private buildings.

Among his non-Ithaca buildings were the main building of Wells College

Wells College

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 in Aurora, New York

Aurora, Cayuga County, New York

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, the Toutorsky Mansion

Toutorsky Mansion

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 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, a villa on Carleton Island

Carleton Island

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 for Wyckoff's father, the typewriter magnate William O. Wyckoff, and Iviswold

Iviswold

Iviswold, also known as The Castle is a house originally constructed in 1869 located in what is now Rutherford, New Jersey. It was placed on the List of Registered Historic Places in New Jersey on November 4, 2004. The house is part of the Rutherford campus of Felician College and currently...

 (1889) for David Brinkerfhoff Ivison, designed as an expansion of the Floyd W. Tomkins House in Rutherford, N.J. Iviswold is now part of the Rutherford campus of Felician College

Felician College

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. Miller also designed two mansions on Rochester, New York's East Avenue (The Avenue of the Presidents) at 800 for Dr. John W. Whitbeck in 1887 and at 963 for Francis A. Macomber in 1888.