"[3] This house embodies many characteristics of the International Style, as adapted to the single-family suburban house, including an open plan with movable walls, flat roof, inclusion of modern conveniences, careful attention to environmental and functional considerations, avoidance of ornament, and extensive use of glass.

[2] Originally developed in Europe as a new system of building that took advantage of modern technological advances and embraced an unornamented, machine-made esthetic transcending regional or national characteristics, the International Style absorbed some natural materials and regional features in the years just before and after World War II.

[3] Miller was an architecture student at Yale and chose to design a modern house for his thesis project.

As their family grew the Millers added a new master bedroom, study, and playroom in 1959, but the addition carefully followed the lines and style of the original.

[3] In the New Haven area, George Kreye, a professor of German at Yale, had designed an international style house in 1935.

In 1985, the Miller house was included in an exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture called "Ten Years Out."

[3] The house embodies many distinctive characteristics of postwar International Style architecture: Henry F. Miller was born in 1916 in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts and grew up in New York City.

In 1974 Miller left the firm to serve as Associate Director of Facilities Planning for Yale University.