Miller House and Garden

About Miller House and Garden

The Miller House and Garden is a historic house museum at 2760 Highland Way in Columbus, Indiana, United States. It was designed by Eero Saarinen as a mid-century modern residence for the family of the businessman J. Irwin Miller and his wife Xenia Simons Miller. The interior designer Alexander Girard, the landscape architect Dan Kiley, and Saarinen's associate Kevin Roche assisted with various parts of the design. The house and gardens, owned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) since 2009, are designated as a National Historic Landmark. Both the house and the gardens have been praised for their design over the years.

The 13.5-acre (5.5 ha) plot of land, bounded by the Flatrock River on the west and Washington Street on the east, includes a meadow, two allées, and groves of trees. Kiley designed the landscape as an extension of the home, loosely divided into three sections extending from the house. The Miller House itself is a single-story house on a terrace, covered by a flat roof. It covers 6,838 square feet (635.3 m2) with six bedrooms. Inside, four zones branch off from a central living room that features a conversation pit. These four zones include rooms for parents, children, guests and servants, and service areas. Girard designed furnishings and furniture for the house, and the Millers displayed their art collection there.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

More museums in Columbus →Best museums in Indiana →

Photos of Miller House and Garden

  1. Miller House and Garden, Indiana01IndianaNyttend · Public domain
  2. Inside Miller House and Garden02Inside Miller House and GardenHadleyFruits · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Carole Wantz inside the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana03Carole Wantz inside the Miller House in Columbus, IndianaHadleyFruits · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. Indiana - Miller House and Garden04Indiana - Miller House and GardenMilepostLivingPhotography · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Indiana - Miller House and Garden05Indiana - Miller House and GardenMilepostLivingPhotography · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. Miller House (Columbus, Indiana) - March 2013 - Jeff Hart06Miller House (Columbus, Indiana) - March - Jeff HartJeff Hart · CC BY 2.0

Shared by photographers under free licenses on Wikimedia Commons. Tap a photo to see it full size there.

Visitor reviews

No one has reviewed Miller House and Garden yet. If you've been, tell other visitors what stood out and when you went. Anyone who has visited can write one, with or without their name, and we read each review before it appears.

No reviews yet. Been here? Be the first to share your visit.

Visited Miller House and Garden? Write a review

No account needed. We read every review before it appears.

Nearby museums

Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 1.8 miles of Miller House and Garden; the closest, Columbus Museum of Art and Design, is about 1.7 miles away.