University of Washington Libraries, Special CollectionsPH0612University of Washington. Libraries. Special CollectionsUniversity of
Washington Miller Hall Façade Sculptures Photograph Collectionapproximately 195243 photographic prints ((4 folders))Collection
materials are in
English.Photographs of
the 44 gargoyles, created by sculptor Alonzo Victor Lewis in 1922, on Miller
Hall at the University of Washington.The University of Washington's Miller Hall, named
for University regent, Winlock William Miller, is one of seven neo-Gothic
buildings on campus with gargoyles and façade sculptures in niches near the top
stories. Built in 1922, and originally known as Education Hall, the structure
housed the University president and administrative offices, and the education
and engineering colleges.
Alonzo Victor Lewis (1886-1946) created the 44 sculptures on Miller
Hall's third story. Lewis was born in Utah, received art training at the Art
Institute of Chicago, and established a studio in Seattle in 1920, where he
specialized in sculpture and oil painting. Lewis also taught sculpture at the
University of Washington, and was named Washington Sculptor Laureate by the
State Legislature. Among his best-known works are The
Doughboy at the Seattle Center, Victory
Memorial on the state capital grounds at Olympia, and the Abraham
Lincoln memorial sculpture in Spokane.
The collection contains photographs of the façade sculptures
(grotesques) and gargoyles on Miller Hall, sculpted by Alonzo Victor Lewis in
1922. Since the building was named Education Hall at the time, Lewis's
sculptures symbolize education, depicting teachers with students and famous
scholars such as Confucius and Dante. Of note are the images of "Fish Teacher,"
resembling the mythical god Neptune, and "English Public School Students,"
featuring two young men in top hats.
Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections
website. Permission of Visual Materials curator required to view originals.
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Processed by Jen Wolfe, 2002.
Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)Lewis, Alonzo Victor, 1891-1950Lewis, Alonzo Victor, 1891-1950Miller Hall (Seattle, Wash.)--PhotographsUniversity of Washington--Buildings--PhotographsGargoyles--Washington (State)--Seattle--PhotographsGrotesques--Washington (State)--Seattle--PhotographsFacades--Washington (State)--Seattle--PhotographsCollege buildings--Washington (State)--Seattle--PhotographsGothic revival (Architecture)--Washington (State)--Seattle--PhotographsEducation in artSeattlePhotographsArts and HumanitiesArchitectureColleges and UniversitiesFine Arts
South Façade, Miller Hall11Grammatist 12Music 13Printer 14Dante
(Scriptorium) 15Technical
Education 16Block
Book East Façade, Miller Hall27Medieval School
Master and Block Book 28Medieval School
Master 29Begging
Student 210 Early German
School 211Swiss Teacher
(Pestalozzi) 212French Teacher
and Student 213New England Dame
School 214Charity School
Boy and Girl 215Kindergarten
Pupils 216Ragged
School 217Teacher of
Science (American High School Teacher) 218American Latin
School Teacher 219Colonial
School 220English Public
School Students North Façade, Miller Hall321Arts of
Philosophy 322Liberal
Arts 323Medicine 324Civil
Laws 325Theology
I West Façade, Miller Hall426Chivalric
Education 427Theology
II 428Roman
Pedagogue 429Greek
Pedagogue 430Hebrew
Teacher 431Music 432Astronomy 433Geometry 434Mathematics 435Medieval
Dialectician (Francis Bacon) 436Medieval
Rhetoric 437Grammar
Teacher 438Teacher of
ABC's 439Phoenician 440Egyptian
Teacher 441Chinese Teacher
(Confucius) 442Fish
Teacher 443Chinese Teacher
(Confucius) and Fish Teacher