Robert Mills

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Robert Mills was a prominent 19th-century American architect best known for designing major public monuments and buildings in the early United States.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American architect
architect
human
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1781-08-12
dateOfDeath 1855-03-03
designed Fireproof Building (Charleston, South Carolina)
Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia)
Old Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Treasury Building wings (Washington, D.C.)
Washington Monument
Washington Monument (Baltimore, Maryland)
educatedBy Benjamin Henry Latrobe
James Hoban
employer United States federal government
era 19th century
fieldOfWork architecture
neoclassical architecture
genre monumental architecture
public architecture
hasPartInHisOeuvre churches
government buildings
hospitals
monuments
influencedBy Benjamin Henry Latrobe
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement Neoclassicism
name Robert Mills
nationality American
notableFor designing federal government buildings in Washington, D.C.
designing major public monuments in the early United States
notableWork Fireproof Building (Charleston, South Carolina)
Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia)
Octagon House alterations (Washington, D.C.)
Old Patent Office Building (now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery)
Patent Office Building (Washington, D.C.)
Treasury Building (Washington, D.C.)
U.S. Marine Hospital (Charleston, South Carolina)
Washington Monument
Washington Monument (Baltimore, Maryland)
occupation architect
civil engineer
placeOfBirth Charleston, South Carolina
placeOfDeath Washington, D.C.
positionHeld Architect of Public Buildings
Federal Architect
residence Charleston, South Carolina
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C.


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