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Property Features
1991-
Originally built in 1853, this house was moved to this site in 1908. Vernacular 2-story, clapboard-clad. Steeply pitched, cross gabled roof, 2-over-2 double-hung windows, and a double door of carved wood and glass. A graceful porch extends the full length of the 3-bay facade.
"Originally built in 1853, this house was moved to its present site in 1908 by William and Anna Mae Miller, a prominent couple long active in the improvement of the social conditions of Madison's African-American community. The house is a vernacular two-story clapboard structure with a steeply pitched intersecting gable roof, two-over-two double hung windows and a double door of carved wood and glass. A graceful porch extends across the front of its three-bay facade.
In its early years the Miller house served as a rooming house for African-American families migrating from the south. In 1919 the Miller family moved into the home. Family members continued to live there until the early 1980s.
William Miller went to Berea College in Berea Kentucky, attended law school in Chicago and eventually worked for Governor Robert M. LaFollette. He helped organize St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Madison Chapter of the NAACP, Anna Mae Miller organized the Book Lovers Club, a literary society, and she was a charter member of the Utopia Club, a charitable organization. She was also a founding member of and long-time treasurer of the Madison Chapter of the NAACP. It is to the Miller's eldest child, Lucile, that this brochure is dedicated." Old Market Place Neighborhood walking tour guide. Madison Landmarks Commission and Old Market Place Neighborhood Association, 1991.
National And State Register Of Historic Places Listings
HI16702
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