William Henry Miller (architect)

William Henry Miller (1848–1922) was an American architect based in Ithaca, New York.

[1] Born in 1848 in Trenton, New York, Miller attended Cornell University from 1868 to 1870, but departed without graduating one year before the College of Architecture was created.

He is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca, New York under a distinctive wrought-iron cross of his design and across from the Cornell family mausoleum he designed for his longtime benefactors, the Cornell family.

[3] Miller was the foremost architect in Ithaca and at Cornell University for many years, designing over seventy buildings on and off campus including 9 fraternity houses.

[6][7] Some of his works in Ithaca include: Among his non-Ithaca buildings were the main building of Wells College in Aurora, New York, the Toutorsky Mansion in Washington, D.C., built for US Supreme Court Justice Henry Billings Brown in Washington, D.C., in 1894, the Berkshire "cottage" Oronoque in Stockbridge, M.A., for Birdseye Blakeman in 1887,[15] a villa on Carleton Island for Wyckoff's father, the typewriter magnate William O. Wyckoff,[16] and Iviswold (1889) for David Brinkerfhoff Ivison, designed as an expansion of the Floyd W. Tomkins House in Rutherford, N.J.[17] Iviswold is now part of the Rutherford campus of Felician College.