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In Memoriam
Hugh C. Miller
(1929-2025)
Hugh Clark Miller, FAIA, FAPT, 95, passed away peacefully May 12,
2025.
Born in Lancaster, PA and educated at the Mercersburg Academy and
the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, MILLER
was an architect and educator, an internationally-recognized innovator
and leader in historic preservation--especially technical preservation
of buildings and structures--landscape preservation, and cultural
tourism.
Miller worked for the US National Park Service for much of his
career. His years there were book-ended by restoration of American
icons: from Independence Hall in the early 1960s to the Statue of
Liberty in the late 1980s. He developed training programs for cultural
resource management, preservation maintenance and related technical
courses for historical architects. He initiated studies that led
to an NPS manual on the preservation of cultural landscapes, organized
field schools in cultural landscape management, and coordinated
NPS national programs in landscape preservation. Following federal
retirement, he was appointed State Historic Preservation Officer
for the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governors Gerald Baliles and
Douglas Wilder.
Miller was a life-long educator. He and NPS colleagues pioneered
a maintenance-focused approach to preservation taught to craftsmen
and other practitioners throughout NPS. He taught seminars and workshops
on building and landscape preservation at universities and to national
audiences. He was Adjunct Professor of Preservation Technology at
Goucher College for over twenty years in their Master of Arts in
Historic Preservation program.
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Obituary by Joan Berkowitz (APT)
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Obituary by architect John Fidler
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Obituary by Michael A.Tomlan
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Obituary by U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
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Obituary by The Coalition To Protect America's National Parks
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Obituary by family
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Obituary by Cremation Society of Virginia
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confirms his age
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Note by Hugh on Herb Stovel (past APT President)
Publications
Hugh made numerous contributions as author and guest editor of
APT's Bulletin, These are available to APTi members through JSTOR
(see APTi web site). Following are a few samples.
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Managing Cultural Landscapes Through Values, Technology, and Planning
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Monocacy Aqueduct on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
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Preservation Technology Comes of Age in North America: Part 1
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Preservation Technology Comes of Age in North America: Part 2
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Special Issue on Climatge Change and Preservation Technology
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School of Architecture (1973)
Images
1983 - International experts invited by ICOMOS and ICCROM to discuss
UNESCO World Heritage issues
2004 - APT Galveston banquet and awards
In 2004 The Getty Conservation Institute invited the APT College
of Fellows to hold a retreat in Los Angeles. At that time, the GCI
scientists were working on identifying the materials that composed
the First Photograph and building a unique environmentally stable
case for the Photo.
The APT College of Fellows meeting for a retreat at the GCI in
2004
APT Fellows discovering the GCI's scientific laboratory working
on low cost technology for museums in high humidity tropical areas.
APT Fellows in the GCI's laboratory
2004 - Susan Buggey (Canada) and Hugh Miller at the GCI
Steve Kelley, Jan Anderson and Francois LeBlanc with Hugh enjoyoing
dinner at Benihana in LA
At Benihana in LA
2004 - Steve Kelley and Hugh at the GCI
2004 - Susan Buggey (Canada) and Hugh Miller at a reception at
the LeBlanc condo in Santa Monica
2006 - Second APT COF retreat at the GCI
2006 - Second APT COF retreat at the Getty Villa in Malibu, LA
2006 - Renée LeBlanc and Hugh at the Getty Villa
2006 - Dinner in Santa Monica
2006 - Michael Tomlan, Hugh, Barbara Campagna (APT President)
2006 - Hugh and Jan Anderson
2006 - Melvyn Green and Hugh at the APT retreat
2008 - Hugh participating to a preservation round table organized
by Christina Cameron in Montreal.
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