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Patton & Miller was an architectural firm of Chicago, Illinois.

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Normand Smith Patton and Grant C. Miller [1] designed over 100 Carnegie libraries nationwide, including Buffalo Township Public Library, built in 1894, and 14 more in Illinois. [2]

They designed numerous buildings which have been preserved and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [3] [4]

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Keep Cottage, in Oberlin, Ohio.

Works (with attribution variations) include:

See also

Notes

  1. Clinton, Iowa architectural firm of Patton & Miller. Beaux Arts Classicism style with a monumental entry with processional steps and flanking paired columns. ...
  2. Freeport, Illinois Carnegie Library in Illinois and one of the first Carnegie Libraries designed by the famous Chicago architectural firm of Patton and Miller. ...
  3. Illinois Carnegie Libraries Multiple Property Submission

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References

  1. ↑ Abigail Ayres Van Slyck (1995). Free to All: Carnegie Libraries & American Culture, 1890-1920 . University of Chicago Press. p.  60. ISBN   978-0-226-85031-3 . Retrieved 2011-06-13.
  2. ↑ Schnell, Karen E. Illinois Carnegie Libraries , National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, NPS Focus, National Park Service , November 10, 1993, accessed January 22, 2011.
  3. ↑ Illinois Carnegie Libraries MPS
  4. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  5. ↑ AIA Guide to Chicago, p. 243.
  6. ↑ "Carnegie Library". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  7. ↑ Alice Sinkevitch (2004). AIA Guide to Chicago: Second Edition. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 331. ISBN   0156029081.
  8. ↑ AIA Guide to Chicago, p. 332.
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