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Copy of Register of Historic Places
The Miller School of Albemarle
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ITh,, Millor School_ of Albemarle
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The Main Building, the Mechanical Arts Building and the
+Superintendent's House at the Miller School of Albemarle are
,the noteworthty examples of High Victorian Gothic. The complex
,obcunies a hill surrounded by the rich bottom lands of Mechum's
iiiver. Farmhouses, cottages and a modern dormitory are scatterer
ion the outskirts of the campus.
The Le- -1hb.pcd Main PuIIding wao orlgln,i1ly bu11t as a 'T' ;
the north and south wings completing the 'E"were added later.
This building is two stories high with an English basement and
a slate mansard roof. The walls are laid in unbonded brick with
highlights picked out in stone forming a constructional or
permanent bichrome. A pointed.segementally arched portico opens
off the central pavilion on the west side. The piers supporting
the portico are bichrome and have panels. A rosette 'motif with
boss appears in the spandrel above the arch. The doorway under'
the portico has a pointed segmental arch over a large transom.
Stone steps with low stone sides lead to the north and south
doorways opening onto the first floor. These doorways have wide;
stone, lancet arches with a dripstone springing from brick
.ilasters on stone bases. The windows in the stone gPound level
ave six -over -six wooden sashes. The tall narrow windows on the
second floor have a stone dripstone and six -over -six sashes with
large lights. A stone -course surrounds the building at -the sill
level of the window and at the bottom of the dripstone. A stone
belt course runs im:,nediately above the windows. The second floor
windows incorporate similar features, but are capped by a
segmentally arched dripstone. In the projecting pavilions, there
re three lancet windows with dripstones on the second floor. In
each -of the gables of the pavilions is a trefoil window with a rc
three quatrefoil windows opening immediately below. The mansard
roof is pierced by steep gabled dormers with lancet arched windoi
The Main Building was designed to house most of the acti&it_
Cher than the Industrial Arts, carried out by the school, The
m6ss hall on the first floor and the chapel on the second occupy
pie main bar of the 'E'. In other sections of the building,
Haigh-ceilinged square rooms open off long halls with high ceilinj
cff wide stairway with symmetrically divided flights and elaborate:
arved and incised newels ascends at the juncture of the center
�'E1 bar and the west section, and is 'lit by a skylight. A stair
with an elaborate newel also ascends'in'eaci^ of•the wings.
The mechanical Arta Building, a rectangular brick building
ith'stone highlights, has a tall clock tower with a steep pyram'
oof on the southwest corner, and a low tower with a similar rM
�Dn the other three corners. This building has been enlarged two
bays to the east. The two-story structure has a partial English
basement and a slate mansard roof. The doorway in the tower has
rounded arch with four stone ke stone elements and a trian ula
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❑ Engincerinp
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❑ Agriculture
❑ InwnNon
❑ Schnee
❑ Architecture
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STATEMENT hT •IGNIFICANCE
When Samuel Miller died on Nfardi 21; 1869; the left a'will
with a'large bequest that was to•fund a.rgchool in Albemarle
County on the "Manual Labor Principle". This school was to be
a charitable institution to benefit the underpriyij.eged and
eeoaomiIlally deprived children of the county. Only'one of .
Miller's designated executors, N.`M. rage-, survived to bear
the burden of administering the estate of nearly two million
dollars. From this, Yiller provided for his family, left
$151,000 to the Lynchburg Female Orphan Asylum, $20,000 to the
city of Lynchburg and the residue to found the Miller Manual
Labor School of'Albemarle. The establishment of this school
had long been the dream of Samuel Miller, who himself was born
into poverty in Albemarle County,
The work upon the main building was begun in 1874, althoug
the school was not incorporated by the General Assembly until
1877. The west front section of the Main Building with the
central wing was completed in 1878, the south wing in 1881 and
the north in 1883, all at the cost of $140,000. The architects
were Captain Albert M. Lybrock and D, Wiley Anderson of Richmon
This building was and is the scene of all academic, residential
and religious activities. The machine shop.building was
completed in 1882 at the cost of $50000. This building housed
the forges, the mechanic shop, the metal and the woodworking sh
These buildings and the superintendent's house were built in t,
popular High Victorian Gothic style, and are excellent examples
of this architectural mode. The first superintendent of the
school, C. E. Vawter, and the executor, Page, were instrumental
in having the construction of the buildings move on schedule,
and the school begiri Instruction. Vawter is largely responsibl
for the early success of the school in carrying out Miller's
tenets.
.The Miller School of Manual Labor admitted both male and
female students until the early twentieth century, after which
it was an institution for males only. The name was later
changed to the Miller School of Albemarle. In the middle of
the twentieth century it became a military school with a Defen
Department classification of "an honor school with distinction
The Miller School continues to pursue its founder's purpose in
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Y. MAJOR 316LIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
Files of Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission.
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ORGANt ZATION
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Vnia Hispxicarks Cammissinn1973
STREET AND NUMBER:
Root 1116 Ninth Street State Of ice
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12.;STA:cLIAISON OFFICER 'C�RTt�tC.q'iION
e°=' NATIONAL'REGtSTERVERIFICATION
As the des ignaled State Liaison Officer for the Na-
tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law
f hereby certify that this property is included in the
89.665), 1 hereby nominate this property for inclusion
National Register"
in the National Register and certify that it has been
.Tuluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set
forth by the National Park Service. The recommended
level of significance of this nomination is:
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z.vched dripgtone. Tall, narrow double hung wooden windows with
!'our -over -four sash and stone jack arches open on both the first
and second levels of the west facade. The windows opening on the
first floor on the sides of the building have segmental arches wit
stone keystones. The second floor windows have stone flat arches.
uabied dormers pierce the mansard roof. All of these windows have
sic -over -six sash. A bell is visible throughout the rounded arche
of the belfry atop the southwest tower. On the interior, this
building retains the original drive shafts from which all the
rlachinery was operated. A few drive belts continue to power
certain tools still in use daily..
West of these principle school buildings stands the superinte
house. The brick ell -shaped building has an enclosed flat -roofed
porch tower; the original tower roof has been removed., A mansard
roof is retained over the front of the house. A wide wooden corni
surrounds the house. A belt course of brick in a decorative patter
also encircles the building.. A lancet arch forms the exterior
doorway in the porch tower leading to double doors with a•clover-
lea.f motif, bosses and large glass panels of patterned frosted
glass. The first floor windows have flat arches, the second floor
segmental, and the third story tower windows -- drop arches. All
;ave stone dripstones. A small terrace opens off the south window
in the east.bay. A balcony opens just over the doorway in the por
Lower, and another over the bay window to the east.
The house has a central hall plan.with two rooms opening off
t to the east and one to the west. The ell runs to the north.
closed string stair with an elaborately carved squ4re newel and
urned balusters ascends in the cross hall at the rear of the
entral hall. The wainscoting in the rooms is composed of vertica
oards between the molded baseboard and chair rail with rosettes.
he doorways have molded trim with incised corner blopks and carve
intels. The soffits of the doorways are panelled; the.doors have
our panels and occasionally some incision at the top panel. The
rch at the bottom of the stair has a geometrically patterned
creep. Window trim is similar to the doorway trim. Fireplaces
re elaborately decorated with cabinet mantels employing classical
evival columns, urns and swags, or incised and marblized spandrel
artouches and pilasters.
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Form 10 100u UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
(July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
INVENTORY • NOMINATION FORM
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teaching Industrial Arts, although it also offers a college
preparatory course. Most of the students presently mix the two
courses of study gaining competence in both. And the school
continues to offer a large number of scholarships to enable stude
to receive a'private school education.
Miller School was a pioneer in the use of electric lighting.
As early as 1885, electricity was installed in the buildings and
proved "to be as cheap as kerosene, while it has banished lamp-
lighters, explosions, foul air and sore eyes." The school purcha
and installed for its electrical plant the second special type of
generator for community lighting. This generator is now at the
Ford Museult in Dearborn, Michigan.
The Miller School is significant as the pioneer of industria
education in Virginia and in the South. At the time of its incep ion.
only the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and the Worcheste
County Free Institute, both in New England, were offering a smili�r
program of,education. Neither of these emphasized the idea of ma ual
labor, as Miller had wished, and as Vawter desig>ied the school to
have. Vawter created a unique educational facility on the basis
that manual labor is honorable and rewarding. Miller graduates
received exacting instruction in iron, metal and woodwording, and
mechanics, and were soon in demand throughout the nation. The
Miller"school today continues to embody the same principles and
practices established by its founders.
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(July 19691 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
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