Arthur H. Miller
Archivist and Librarian
for Special Collections
Donnelley and Lee Library,
Library and Information Technology
Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045-2399
847-735-5064; amiller@lakeforest.edu
Professional
Lake Forest College, 1972 to present. Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library, 1994 to present. College Librarian, 1972-94; Lecturer variously in English and American Studies, 1970s to 1990s.
The Newberry Library, 1966-72. Assistant Librarian for Public Service, 1970-72; Supt., Main Reading Room, 1968-70; Reference librarian and cataloger, 1966-68
Education
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, 1990-91.
Northwestern University, Ph.D. English (American Literature), 1973. Diss. Herman Melville’s later life and work.
University of Chicago, A.M. (Librarianship), 1968. Thesis: Harriet Monroe Poetry Collection, U. of Chicago Library Special Collections.
--A.M. (English), 1966.
Kalamazoo College, B.A. (English), 1965. Thesis: Henry James’s International Fiction.
Stetson Prize, Sr. Thesis
Universite de Caen, Calvados (Normandy), France. 2e. degree. 1963-64.
Affiliations
Society of Architectural Historians, member, 2008- .
Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation, Board of Directors, 1998 to present; vice-president (programs), 2000-02, 2006-07; president, 2007-09.
Center for Railroad Photography and Art (Madison, WI), 1999 to present; Secretary, 2005- .
Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society, charter member, 1972 to present; board member, ca. 1978-86; president, 1983-85; board member, 2002-06.
Library Committee, Alliance Francaise (Chicago), 1990 to 2002.
Society of Architectural Historians (Chicago Chapter), member 1999- .
Previous offices include presidencies of the Illinois Center for the Book (Illinois State. Library), 1990s; Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest), 1990s; Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society, 1980s; and Caxton Club (Chicago), 1970s.
Publications in Progress
History of the First Presbyterian Church, Lake Forest, 1859-2009, with author Christine Chakoian. Revisions in progress for 2010 publication.
Book on Lake Forest, sequel to Lake Forest: Estates, People and Culture with Shirley M. Paddock to be published by Arcadia Press, late 2010-11.
Articles on Almerin Hotchkiss, Ralph R. Root, Frank Calvert, Louise S. Hubbard, and Marshall Johnson, projected second volume of Pioneers of American Landscape Design, ed. Charles Birnbaum, manuscript submitted January 15, 2004; publication U. of Virginia Press, Fall 2009.
Recent Publications
Walter Frazier; Frazier, Raftery, Orr & Fairbank Architects: Houses of Chicago’s North Shore, 1924-1970. Co-author with Kim Coventry. Lake Forest: Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society, 2009.
“Introduction” with Franz Schulze, Great Houses of Chicago, Susan Benjamin and Stuart Cohen, New York: Acanthus Press, 2008.
Lake Forest College: A Guide to the Campus, ed. Christopher Reed and Arthur H. Miller, the College, 2007.
“Railroad,” American Icons: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things That Have Shaped Our Culture, ed. Dennis R. Hall and Susan Grove Hall, 3 vols., Garland, 2006), v. 3, 585-91.
One Hundred Rare and Notable Books…. Co-author with Amit Shrestha ’07. Archives and Special Collections, Donnelley and Lee Library, Lake Forest College, 2004 (58 pp.). http://www.library.lakeforest.edu/archives/onehundredbooks.html
Seventy-Fifth Birthday of the Deerpath Inn, 2004: An Account of the Inn’s Origins and Early Development. Co-author with Shirley M. Paddock. Lake Forest, 2004 (4 pp.).
Forest & Bluff. Monthly. Contributor, monthly series on Lake Forest and area estates (December, 2002-03, 2009- ).
Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest, 1856-1940: Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940. Co-author, with Kim Coventry and Daniel Meyer. New York: W. W. Norton, June 2003.
“Pocahontas Press,” Inland Printers: the Fine Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-1945. Chicago: Caxton Club of Chicago, 2003. Catalog accompanying exhibits at Columbia College (Chicago), January-February, 2003 and the Harold Washington Library (Chicago), April-June, 2003.
David Adler, Architect: Elements of Style. Ed. Martha Thorne. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the Art Institute of Chicago, 2002. Three (of eighteen) articles on individual Adler houses: Bentley, Hamill, and Pike.
Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture. Co-author, with Shirley M. Paddock (Arcadia, 2000; reprinted 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006).
30 Miles North: A History of Lake Forest College, Its Town, and Its City of Chicago. Co-author with Franz Schulze and Rosemary Cowler (distrib. University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Lake Forest Journal and later The Journal, Lake Forest. Series (monthly) of articles on Lake Forest estates,1994-99.
Presentations
Pending
“Pioneers of American Landscape Design symposium,” November 13, 2009, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago.
"Edward H. Bennett," with E.H. Bennett III, Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation, Nov. 1, 2009.
Recent
“Bennett in the Shadow of Burnham,” Landmarks Illinois, June 18, 2009, Cultural Center, Chicago.
“Edward H. Bennett,” with E.H. Bennett III, Burnham Centennial, May 26, 2009, Cliff Dwellers, Chicago.
Chicago’s upper North Shore tour for Society of Architectural Historians, July 10-15, 2008. See a photo illustrated account by fellow participant Baird Jarman, http://sahinternational.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
“Lake Forest College campus,” Chicago Architecture Foundation, with Franz Schulze and Sara Woodbury ’08. February 20, 2008.
“Landscape Architect Jens Jensen in Lake Forest” for the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Historical Society, April 20, 2007, Meyer Aud., Hotchkiss Hall, Middle Campus, Lake Forest College.
“Mellody Farm: History, Architecture, Landscape and Design,” for Lake Forest Associates of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 19, 2007, Cressy Center, Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest.
“Market Square, Lake Forest,” for take Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation, March 25, 2007, Gorton Center.
Frequent (dozens annually) presenter (slide lectures, talks, tours) in Chicago and Lake Forest area. On architecture, landscape, and design. Other cities in recent years: Milwaukee (2002, Villa Terrace), Philadelphia (2003, Carpenter’s Hall), and New York (2003, Sotheby’s). Local lecturer/tour guide to local estates for the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Morton Arboretum, and the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Awards, Recognition
Distinguished Member, Lake Forest Garden Club, 2005- .
Public Recognition Award, December 2000 (annual, previous recipient Chicago Mayor Richard Daley), American Society of Landscape Architects (Illinois Chapter).
Biography: (as former president) included in Frank J. Piehl, The Caxton Club, 1895-1995; Celebrating a Century of the Book in Chicago (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1995), p. 166.
Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the Midwest, etc.
Illinois Academic Librarian of the Year, 1990, Illinois Library Association.
August 28, 2009