Mifflin E. Bell

Bell delegated design responsibilities to staff members, which resulted in a large variety of building styles, including Second Empire, Châteauesque, Queen Anne and Richardsonian Romanesque.

[4] He married Addie Vanhoff on June 7, 1871, and by 1876 he was living in Springfield, Illinois with his wife and two children, working as Assistant Superintendent of the statehouse.

[1] Bell's tenure as Supervising Architect for the US Treasury began on November 1, 1883, with an annual salary of $4,500 (equivalent to $147,150 today).

Bell submitted his resignation from the position by mid-1887 and moved to Chicago.

[7] Many of his works survive and a number of these are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).