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Miller House

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1945, J. Palmer Boggs. 2319 21st Ave.

This horizontal house with a low, southsloping roof was built of dirt dug from the site, shoveled into wooden wall forms, and packed with long hand tampers. The original owners, attorney David Miller and his wife, Lydia Alles Miller, helped found the American Historical Society of the Germans from Russia (see WE01) and built this house to commemorate rammed earth houses in the old country. Several other rammed earth buildings, including a school, were built in this Alles Acres subdivision. Built on concrete foundations, these houses typically have 18-inch-thick walls which deaden sound and retain warmth in winter and coolness in summer. Louvered transoms facilitate heat transfer throughout the house.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Miller House", [Greeley, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-WE21.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 245-245.

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