Kelsey Keith

Industrialist and architecture patron J. Irwin Miller commissioned a trio of designers?Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, and Dan Kiley?for his home in Indiana. It?s since been cemented in the canon as a masterpiece of midcentury residential design. Editor-in-chief Kelsey Keith first visited the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, back in 2011. She returned for another peek this summer, while in town for Exhibit Columbus, a biennial that activates public space as an entree to all the town?s architectural treasures. The original post has been updated throughout.
American modernism is typified by three midcentury homes glorified in equal part by architecture geeks and tourists: Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Mies Van Der Rohe's Farnsworth House, and Philip Johnson's Glass House. Since it opened as a house museum in 2011, another home in small town Columbus, Indiana, has been welcomed into that lofty club.
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The main entry to the Miller House. Legend has it that the Millers spotted these unusual pavers in Switzerland, couldn?t source anything like them in the United States, and so had them shipped to Indiana directly from Lausanne to pave their driveway.

Designed by Eero Saarinen with interiors by Alexander Girard and landscaping by Dan Kiley, the Miller House was commissioned in 1953 by wealthy industrialist and modern architecture patron J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia.
Among other feats (the house boasts what...