Meet William Henry Miller

William Henry Miller was born in 1848 in Trenton, New York and attended Cornell University from 1868 to 1870. He departed without graduating one year before the College of Architecture was created. Cornell refers to Miller as "Cornell’s first student of architecture”. 

Among his many works, Miller designed the expansion of the Floyd W. Tomkins House in Rutherford. Miller was engaged by David Brinkerfhoff Ivison who purchased the Floyd W. Tomkins House in 1887, then called the “Hill House”.  After its expansion, the new structure was called “Iviswold” and is now part of the Rutherford campus of Felician College.

(Photo provided by Rod Leith, Rutherford Historian and RHPS Advisor)