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Charles B. Miller photograph collection, circa 1920s-1950s
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Miller, Charles B. (Charles Benjamin), 1888-1960
- Title
- Charles B. Miller photograph collection
- Dates
- circa 1920s-1950s (inclusive)19201959
- Quantity
- 65 photographic prints (2 boxes) sizes vary
- Collection Number
- PH0154
- Summary
- Photographs of projects of an Oregon architect
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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The collection is open to the public.
- Additional Reference Guides
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Charles Miller was born in Tina, Missouri on October 21, 1888. He was married in 1906 and had two children. Nothing is known about his formal education, but around 1916 he moved to La Grande, Oregon, where he established his architectural firm Charles B. Miller, Architect . When the Board of Architect Examiners was established in 1919 to license and regulate architects in the state of Oregon, Miller received license no. 63 under the grandfather clause. In 1937, Miller moved from La Grande to Pendleton, Oregon, where he continued working as an architect.
Miller was registered as an architect in both Oregon and Washington, though he did most of his work in Northeast and Central Oregon. Miller served as an engineer in WWII and he was a member of the American Institute of Architects. Miller was also a member of Elks Lodge No. 433 in La Grande, Oregon. He served on the Oregon State of Architects Examiners from 1922-1926. Charles Miller died on January 2, 1960 at the age of 71.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of architectural projects, primarily residential, by Charles B. Miller in an album intended for Miller's clients to use as an idea book. Also includes commerical and public buildings such as The Arcade Theater and the La Grande Public School.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
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Restrictions on Use
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Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Photograph AlbumReturn to Top
The album contains 12 photographs of houses designed by Charles Miller as indicated by the signature of the architect on the photographs. The remaining 14 photos are primarily images of Craftsman style and Revival style houses. The remaining pages of the album contains clippings from periodicals, phamphlets and books illustrating house interiors and views of house exteriors. Attached to the inside front cover of the album is a narrative composed by the architect expounding the dreams of home ownership. Miller refers to the album as a "book of ideas." The narrative outlines the architect's hope that the client would use the architectural images to better communicate their ideas to the architectural designer.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Album | item | ||
1 | 1-1 |
Two-story Colonial Revival house with gambrel roof,
symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller, Architect.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-2 |
Two-story Prairie style house with clay tiled hip roof,
symmetrical stucco facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller, Architect. Negative number:
45874.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-3 |
One-story Spanish eclectic inspired house with railed
parapet roof and symmetrical stucco facade
Written on photo: C.B. Miller, Architect. Negative number:
20256.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-4a |
Two-story Prairie style house with clay tiled hip roof
and asymmetrical stucco facade
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 45578.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-4b | circa 1920s | |
1 | 1-5 |
Two-story Colonial Revival inspired house with hipped
roof, symmetrical stucco facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 30111.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-6 |
Two-story Colonial Revival house with gambrel roof,
symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 45166.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-7 |
Two-story Colonial Revival house with gambrel front and
wing roof, asymmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 45161.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-8 |
One and one-half story Neo-Classical inspired house with
side gable roof, symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 43821.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-9 |
Two-story Colonial Revival house with side gable roof,
symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 45825.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-10 |
Two-story Colonial Revival house with hipped roof,
symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 42220.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-11 |
Two-story Spanish Eclectic house with hipped and gabled
roof, asymmetrical stucco facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: 43881.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-12 |
One-story Craftsman style house with hipped roof,
symmetrical facade and center entrance
Written on photo: C.B. Miller. Negative number: BX-42816.
|
circa 1920s |
1 | 1-13-1-17 | circa 1920s | |
1 | 1-18-1-25 | circa 1920s | |
1 | 1-26-1-40b | Clippings from periodicals, pamphlets and
books
Included in the 27 pages of clippings are 6 pages of
color-rendered perspective views of house interiors; 8 pages of exterior house
and garden views of the Pembroke Estate, Glen Cove, NY; and, 19 pages of
exterior views of various Revival style houses from all over the United States.
The designers and/or architects of the houses and interiors illustrated in the
clippings are not noted.
|
circa 1920s |
Commercial and Institutional BuildingsReturn to Top
The building exteriors are probably not designed by Charles B. Miller. The building may be associated with interior work completed by the architect.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
2/1 | 2-3 |
Perkins Motor Co., La Grande,
OR
Photographs possibly relate toProject No.
199 Perkins Garage(no archived drawings).
|
circa 1920s |
2/1 | 4 | circa 1920s | |
2/1 | 5 | circa 1920s | |
2/1 | 6 |
Sommer Hotel, La Grande, OR
The Sommer Hotel was probably designed by Calvin Thronton who
arrived in La Grande, Oregon around 1889.
|
circa 1920s |
Arcade Theater, La Grande,
OR
Photographs correspond toProject No. 181
Remodel of Arcade Theater for Meyers and Ford. The building is also
known as the Liberty Theater, and is listed in the National Register of
Historic Places. In 1911 theater changed names from The Orpheum Theatre to the
Arcade a name that would remain until the 1930s.
|
1923 | ||
Box/Folder | item | ||
2/1 | 7 | 1923 | |
2/1 | 8 | 1923 | |
2/1 | 9 | 1923 | |
Box/Folder | item | ||
2/2 | 10 |
Henry Building, La Grande,
OR
Photograph relates toProject No. 176 Plans
of Store Building for Mrs. J.C. Henry, LaGrand, OR.
|
Feb. 1923 |
2/2 | 11 | circa 1930s | |
2/2 | 12 | circa 1930s | |
2/2 | 13 | circa 1930s | |
2/2 | 14 | circa 1930s | |
2/2 | 15 | circa 1930s | |
2/2 | 16 |
Temple Hotel, Pendleton, OR
Art Deco style remodel of Hotel with the addition of the 3rd,
4th and 5th floors. Photograph corresponds toProject No.
335 Temple Hotel, including Round-Up Club, Pendleton, OR.
|
1937 |
Residential Buildings, circa 1920s-1930sReturn to Top
Houses probably designed by Charles B.Miller
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
2/3 | 17-18 | circa 1920s | |
2/3 | 19-20 | circa 1920s | |
2/3 | 21-23 | circa 1920s | |
2/4 | 24-28 | circa 1920s | |
2/4 | 29 | circa 1920s | |
2/4 | 30-31 | circa 1930s | |
2/5 | 32-38 | circa 1930s | |
Box | |||
XNA1 | 39 | Negative of residential
house |
circa 1930s |
Documents and Drawings, circa 1920s-1951Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
2/6 | 40 | Site drawing for Frank Ott property,
Oregon |
undated |
2/6 | 41 | Detail drawing for Noah Guffey, La
Grande, Oregon |
undated |
2/6 | 42 | Page from magazineThe Valve World
Pages 18-19, illustrating 16 Spanish Revival style homes in
Pasadena, CA. Caption reads "Group of New Pasadena Homes Equipped with Crane
Sanitary Fixtures (For Details see Page 20)." Page 20, provides owner,
architect and plumbing contractor for each of the 16 homes illustrated on pages
18-19.
|
January 1927 |
2/7 | 43 | 5 page list of architectural drawings
and building titles |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)