Louis du Puget Millar.
Architect, Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, 1909 to 1930.
The Lower Arroyo Seco nomination, citing Pasadena's Arts and Crafts multiple property documentation, names Louis du Puget Millar as one of the movement's most significant architects in the city, and notes English Arts and Crafts features in many of his designs. His name survives in at least seven spellings in the records, from Luis DuPuget Millar to Louis de Pujar Miller. By 1927 he practiced as Millar & Hayes, with Edward A. Hayes. This record credits him on 15 buildings, 12 of them houses.
Who was Louis du Puget Millar?
A Pasadena architect whose houses stand in the Lower Arroyo, the Prospect Historic District and La Cañada Flintridge. He designed the 1914 house at 880 South Madison Avenue, later the home of Daniel M. Linnard, and a 1927 building notice lists him as the owner of a house at 285 Madeline Drive, built by Sam L. Mitchell.
The documents do not agree on his standing. One city review called him not particularly notable, with one Pasadena property, 460 California Terrace, identified as individually significant, while the Lower Arroyo nomination names him among the movement's most significant architects in Pasadena.
Which Millar houses are on the record?
Arts and Crafts houses on West California Boulevard and South Arroyo Boulevard from 1909 to 1913, one of them, 686 West California, credited jointly with P. J. Van Trees and Elmore R. Jeffery; a California Stick Style bungalow at 714 Prospect Boulevard for J. C. Brainerd, one of Prospect Park's developers; a 1916 Tudor Revival house at 800 Berkshire Avenue in La Cañada Flintridge; a 1919 Cotswold cottage at 535 Fremont Drive, built over a farmhouse of about 1889; and the Millar & Hayes houses of 1927 to 1930 on Rose Villa, Madeline Drive and Rosemont Avenue.
Who can tell me if my house is a Millar?
I can check. I'm Greg Anderson of Arroyo Casa. His houses run from Arts and Crafts to Tudor and Cotswold, so the style alone will not tell you. Send me the address and I'll tell you what the record says, and under which spelling.
Every building credited to Louis du Puget Millar.
Buildings the record credits to Louis du Puget Millar, Millar & Hayes, P. J. Van Trees, Elmore R. Jeffery and Louis du Puget Millar, in the order they were built. Commercial buildings and courts are included here because they are part of the maker's work; the neighborhood, city and year pages list houses only.
Where to look next.
- Prospect Park · 4 of these houses
- The Lower Arroyo Seco · 3 of these houses
- La Cañada Flintridge
- Pasadena
- The 1927 Valley House Record
How this record is built.
This record is compiled by the Arroyo Casa Archive of Records from public documents: city and county historic resources surveys and inventories, National Register nominations, landmark designation reports and council records, planning documents and preservation groups' publications, plus the building notices of 1917 to 1930, printed as houses were permitted, contracted or announced. Where a house was matched to the Los Angeles County Assessor's record at the same address in the same city, the page says whether the county confirms it standing. A house is shown only when one of those documents names its architect, and the builder and the first family are shown beside the architect where a document names them. Each house carries the kind of document behind it, and a credit the document itself calls likely, probable, possible or attributed is marked attributed. The methodology and every source document are on one page.
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