Elizabeth Mills Brown (November 28, 1916 – December 27, 2008) was a prominent American architectural historian, preservationist, and civic leader who lived in New Haven and Guilford, Connecticut.
[1][2] Brown was raised in New York City and graduated from the Chapin School in 1934.
She then graduated from Bennington College and earned a master's degree from Yale University.
[1] She was the author of New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design (Yale University Press, 1976), a meticulosly-researched volume which details over 500 structures in that 400-year-old city.
The book called the landmark New Haven Coliseum building, which was new at the time, a structure of "gigantic scale" that gave spectators an "experience of sheer spatial intoxication.