Johnson & Miller Collection

DESIGNATION:

24-

SIZE:

COLLECTION DATES:

1908-1984

PROVENANCE:

Received from Ewing Miller, 1988.

RESTRICTIONS:

None

FINDING AIDS:

Inventory (PDF)

Firm History

The firm of Johnson and Miller was founded in Brazil, Indiana, ca. 1910, and later moved to Terre Haute. Principals were "Mack" Houston Johnson, engineer, and Warren D. Miller, architect. The firm used several names during its history.  The names and dates under which the firm did business are:

M. H. Johnson, Jr.	190?-190?	(2 projects)
Johnson & Miller	ca. 1910-1919	(11 projects)
Johnson, Miller & Miller	1920-1923	(20 projects)
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager	1924-1929	(17 projects)
Miller & Yeager	ca. 1930-1945	(13 projects)
Miller, Yeager & Vrydagh	1946	(no projects)
Miller & Vrydagh	1947-1954	(4 projects)
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller	1955-1961	(5 projects)
Miller, Miller & Associates	ca. 1962-1965	(6 projects)
Ewing Miller Associates	1966-1970	(16 projects)
Ewing Miller Partnership	1971-1973	(5 projects)
Archonics Corporation	1971-ca. 1984	(3 projects)

Scope and Content

Architectural drawings from the offices of M. H. Johnson, Jr., Warren D. Miller, Ewing H. Miller, and Ewing H. Miller II, ca. 1908-ca. 1984.  A few projects by other firms are included as well. Includes drawings for 113 projects (102 by the Johnson and Miller firm, 11 by others), in 118 rolls.  Drawings are grouped according to the name of the firm as recorded in the title block.  For the Johnson and Miller firm, the arrangement is chronological.

Inventory

The Johnson & Miller firm used several names during its history.  The names are listed below, in chronological order.  Dates after the name of a firm are the years the firm did business under that name.

The collection includes also some projects by other firms.  These are at the end of the list.

Asterisks (*) identify projects believed by Ewing Miller to be of special quality or interest.  Annotations in brackets are by Miller, made 10/23/89 and 1/22/90.

Projects by M. H. Johnson, Jr., 190-?

[190-?]  

School house: alteration
Coalmont, Clay Co., IN
M. H. Johnson, Jr., job #142                                                           

[1908-09?]

Florida Township High School
[Brazil, Clay Co., IN?]
M. H. Johnson, Jr.                                                                           

Projects by Johnson & Miller, ca. 1910-1919

[191-?]      

Fayette Township High School
New Goshen, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson & Miller                                                                             

[1914?]      

 I. O. O. F., Brazil Lodge No. 215: Temple
[Brazil, Clay Co., IN]
Johnson & Miller, job #201                                                             

[1915?]      

Richland Township High School (Ellettsville School)
[Brazil, Clay Co., IN?]
Johnson & Miller, job #220                                                             

Brazil High School: boiler house
[Brazil, Clay Co., IN?]
Johnson & Miller, job #229

First Presbyterian Church manse
Greencastle, Putnam Co., IN
Johnson & Miller, job #232

[1916?]      

Craig Township District School No. 23
[Switzerland Co., IN]
Johnson & Miller, job #324                                                             

1917          

Scott, Sarah, School
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson & Miller, job #346

[Junior high school, still in use.]                                                     

[1918?]      

Fayette Township High School, chemical closet system
New Goshen, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson & Miller, job #470

1918          

Wiley High School: alterations
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson & Miller, job #471

[Building has been torn down.]                                                      

*   Union Hospital: emergency ward
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson & Miller, job #488

1919          

Orpheum Theatre: remodeling
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson & Miller, job #529                                                             

Projects by Johnson, Miller & Miller, 1920-1923

1920          

Plymouth Congregational Church
Plymouth, Marshall Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #357

Cloverdale Township School
[Cloverdale, Putnam Co., IN?]
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #577                                                   

Van Buren Township High School
Van Buren, Grant Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #592                                                   

Sheridan School: remodeling
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #609

1921-24     

Union Hospital: private ward building
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson, Miller & Miller/Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #590
2 rolls (originals plus linen blueprints)

1921          

Wiley High School gymnasium
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #566
[Building has been razed.]                                                             

Linton Stockton High School
[Linton, Greene Co., IN?]
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #579

Meridian St. School: repairs
Brazil, Clay Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #631

Curry Township School: repairs
Farmersburg, Sullivan Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #633

Curry Township School: new building
Shelburn, Sullivan Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #634

Community High School
Martinsville, Clark Co., IL
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #640

Wiley High School: remodeling
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #643

Fayette Township School
Sanford, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #655

1922          

Eugene Township School
Cayuga, Vermillion Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #641

Presbyterian Church
Brazil, Clay Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #713

Fayette Township School: alterations
New Goshen, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #761

Sandison School
18th & Sycamore Sts.
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN?] 769
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #769

St. Patrick's School
19th St.
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN?]
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #783

Wiley [High School] annex: heating plant
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #788

1923          

Fire alarm telegraph building
9-1/2 St.
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller & Miller, job #837

Projects by Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, 1924-1929

1924     

*   Rea, William S., Park: club house
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #890
[Ewing H. Miller I, designer.  Still in use as a clubhouse.]

Odon & Madison Township Consolidated School
Odon, Daviess Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #912

*   Indiana State Normal School: dormitory for women
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #919
[Still in existence.]

1925          

O'Laughlin, Mr. Wilbur, house
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #947

Lincoln School: addition and alterations
Elm St.
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #973

Otter Creek Township School
Burnett, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #974

Gerstmeyer High School: automobile repair shop building
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #976

Washington, Booker T., School: addition
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #977

Central Christian Church: remodeling and repairs
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #981

1926  

****Zorah Temple Mosque
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #948
[Still standing.]

**  B'nai Abraham Congregation Synagogue
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #955
[Still standing.  Now a senior citizens' center.]

1927          

Attica High School
Attica, Fountain Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1036

Nevins Township school building: addition and remodeling
Fontanet, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1052

Union Hospital: private ward building: revisions
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1053
(continuation of job #590?)

1927-29     

Indiana State Normal School/Indiana State Teachers College: Physical Education Building
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1040
2 rolls (originals plus linen blueprints)
[Demolished?]

1928          

Indiana State Normal School: women's dormitory extension
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1094

1929          

Indiana State Teachers College: heating plant
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Johnson, Miller, Miller & Yeager, job #1118
[Demolished.]

Projects by Miller & Yeager, ca. 1930-1945

1930          

St. Benedict's Church: remodeling
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1152

1933          

Indiana State Teachers College: training school
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1137
[Teacher training school; "the ultimate school in Terre Haute."]

1934          

Highland School
Harrison Twp.
Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1204

1935          

Rankin School: additions and remodeling
Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1203

Portable school building
Sugar Creek Township
Taylorville, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1218

Vigo County Asylum
Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1219

Colored Orphans dormitory
Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1223

1936          

Indiana State Teachers College: men's dormitory
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
Miller & Yeager, job #1240

1937          

Garfield High School: gymnasium
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1244

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1261

[1937?]      

Grade School No.3
Lost Creek Township
[IN?]
Miller & Yeager, job #1263

1938     

*   Indiana State Teachers College: fine arts & commercial building
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1272

1945-48     

Commercial Solvents Corp. research laboratory: addition
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Yeager, job #1350
[Early modernist.]

Projects by Miller & Vrydagh, 1947-1954

1948          

Hook's Drug Store
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Vrydagh, proj. #1460
[By Allison Vrydagh.]

1950          

University Lutheran Chapel & Student Center
Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN
Miller & Vrydagh, proj. #1526
[With Walter Scholer & Associates.  Allison Vrydagh, designer.]

1951          

Ferguson, D. M. Jr., motel and restaurant
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller & Vrydagh, proj. #1579
[Of historical interest.]

1953          

Scottland School: gymnasium addition
Scottland, [Edgar Co.,] IL
Miller & Vrydagh, proj. #1616

Projects by Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, 1955-1961

1956     

*   East Side Elementary School
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, proj. #1659

1957     

*   Indiana State Teachers College: women's dormitory
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, proj. #1680
[Ewing H. Miller II, designer.]

1958          

Eastern Express Inc., office building
U.S. Hwy. 40
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, proj. #1601

Bloomfield High School: addition
Bloomfield, Spencer Co., IN
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, proj. #1700

Chamber of Commerce building: remodeling
629 Cherry Street
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Vrydagh & Miller, proj. #1704

Projects by Miller, Miller & Associates, ca. 1962-1965

1964          

American Red Cross, Wabash Valley Chapter: chapter house
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1805

*   First Unitarian Universalist Church
State Road 46 by-pass
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN?]
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1819

Heath, L. S., & Sons office building: addition
Robinson, Crawford Co., IL
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1845

1965          

Delta Upsilon fraternity house
West Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., IN
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1838

1965-67     

Indiana State University: campus landscaping
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1876
[Frits Loonsten, consultant.]

1966          

Southwest redevelopment project
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Miller, Miller and Assoc., proj. #1885

Projects by Ewing Miller Associates, 1966-1970

1966          

Terminal & garage buildings
Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., PA
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1890    

1966-68

Honey Creek Square shopping center/Sears Roebuck & Co., retail store at Honey Creek Square
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1883, 1883A
(on some drawings project number is given as #1183)                      

1967     

*   Union Hospital: addition (preliminaries)
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1839

*   Meadows Elementary School
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1911                                                     

1968          

Bloomfield Elementary School: addition
Bloomfield, Greene Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1894                                                     

*   Indiana State University: School of Nursing, clinical education building
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1895

Wabash College: physical education building remodeling, phase II
Crawfordsville, Montgomery Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1899
[Interesting for steel reinforcing to older building.]

*   Wabash Valley Technical Institute, phases I and II
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1912

[1968?]  

*  Callahan Funeral Home: remodeling
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN?]
Ewing Miller Assoc., project #1913

1968-69  

* Hamilton, Katherine, Mental Health Center
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1892
3 rolls
[This project involved much behavioral research, in consultation with Lawrence Wheeler, University of Arizona.  The working drawings were among the first in Indiana to be printed in reduced size by photo-offset (with base information shown in brown).  Contractors got even for the small format by sending reduced-size correspondence!]

Honey Creek Root Store at Honey Creek Square
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1922; Crowther, Kruse, Landin & Assoc.

1969     

*   Indiana State University: driver & safety instructional demonstration center
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1932

Greenwood Manor, phase II
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc.

*   Shanks Motor Co., new [Volkswagen] auto agency
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1945

1970          

Union Hospital: addition
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1961

["Complex job--nice design."]

[1970?]      

Indiana State University: Tirey Memorial Union, additions and remodeling (schematics, perspective)
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc., proj. #1964
["This was largely underground, an early piece of environmental design.  ISU has the tracings of the working drawings."]

Projects by Ewing Miller Partnership, 1971-1973

1970-72     

University of Evansville: School of Nursing
Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IN
Ewing Miller Partnership/Archonics Corp, proj. #1980; Condict & Fosse, Architects
2 rolls

1971     

*   Indiana State University: stadium, phase 1
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Partnership, proj. #1986
[A new stadium, incorporates memorial arch.  Early use of Astroturf.]

*   CBS Records: injection molding plant
1400 N. Fruitridge Ave.
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Partnership
[Drawings are acetate negatives, which are then offset printed.]

*   Terre Haute fire station
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Partnership

1971-72  

* Public Service Indiana: office building
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Ewing Miller Assoc./Ewing Miller Partnership, proj. #T-021
[A competition entry.  Not built.]

Projects by Archonics Corporation, 1971-ca. 1984

[1971?]      

CBS [Records: warehouse and site development]
[1400 N.] Fruitridge Ave.
[Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN]
[Archonics Corp.?]
[Exterior perspectives by Gerald Exline showing two schemes for a new warehouse plus proposals for landscaping and site development.]

1972-74  

* Indiana Laborers Training Institute
Oolitic, Lawrence Co., IN
Archonics Corp., proj. #T-002

1974     

*   Comprehensive Mental Health Center
Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN
Archonics Corp., proj. #6912

[Carl Bradley was partner in charge.]

Project by Ewing H. Miller II

1951          

Indianapolis home show: model home
Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN
Ewing H. Miller II
[1951 was the first year in which the Home Show held a national competition.  Ewing Miller's entry was the winner.  Frank Lloyd Wright's son was in the competition.  Second or 3rd place went to Given of Evansville.]

Projects by Ewing H. Miller II and Gladys J. Miller

1955-71     

Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Ewing H., house: additions and remodelings
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
[Ewing H. Miller II and Gladys J. Miller]
[This is for the Miller's house on a farm south of Terre Haute near Youngstown.  Design was by Ewing and Gladys (the additions mostly by Gladys), and Gladys did the working drawings.]             

Projects by Ewing Miller Associates and Gerald Exline

[196-?]      

New Swope Gallery: concepts [perspective sketches]
[location unknown]
[Ewing Miller Assoc.; Gerald Exline]
[Studies for front elevation.  The project never went beyond concepts.  The sketches are Exline's.]

[ca. 1970?]

Indiana State University, Evansville: University Center [perspective sketches]
Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IN
[Ewing Miller Assoc.; Gerald Exline]
["Original Exline sketches.  We shared design responsibility.  Exline is not an Indiana architect but did head Cranbrook.  He worked with me on SIU after the master planning.]

Projects by other firms

1916, 1929

McLean, William E., School
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Herbert Foltz (job #1602, 1916); additions and alterations by Geo J. Stoner & Co., Architects & Engineers (Chicago), job #867, 1929

[192-?]      

Terre Haute city schools #13 and #25 [PMTs]
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
J. G. Vrydagh

1927          

Cherry Building, for Cherry St. Building Corp.,
Cherry St., 600 block
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Geo. J. Stoner & Co. (Terre Haute), job #835B
[reference material for Miller, Vrydagh & Miller job #1704]

1958          

Indiana State Teachers College: Student Union Building: addition and remodeling
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Yeager Architects, comm. #238

1967-68     

Indiana State University: new classroom building, landscape planting
Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
Frits Loonsten, landscape architect

Projects of unknown/uncertain authorship

1984          

Mohawk Condominiums
Carmel vic., Hamilton Co., IN
[Archonics Corp.?], job #22270

Miscellaneous

1967-72     

Indiana State University, Evansville [topo. maps & aerial photos]
Evansville, Vanderburgh Co., IN
[Now Southwest Indiana University.]