Robert Mills Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes personal and professional correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, and sketches. Correspondence items include letters from Mills biographer, Helen M.P. Gallagher to collection donor Moise H. Goldstein, letters from Mills’ sister Sarah Lusher and his mother Ann Smith Mills, and letters to his daughter Mary P. Dimitry with a note by daughter Jacqueline. Mills’ diary containing the manuscript for Manuel (sic) on Rail Roads, the incomplete “Works of Robert Mills”, and sketches of towns and subjects in South Carolina, as well as a treatise called The Tuscan Order are maintained. Many of the documents in the collection were transcribed in Pamela Scott’s microfilm project, Guide to the Papers of Robert Mills.
Dates
- 1802-1919
Creator
- Mills, Robert, 1781-1855 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is the physical property of Tulane University Special Collections. Copyright belongs to the creators or their legal heirs and assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or owner’s heir for permission to publish where Tulane University Special Collections does not hold the copyright. For further information, please contact Research Services at specialcollections@tulane.edu.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Mills (1781-1855), is considered to be the first native-born professional architect in the United States.
Extent
2.58 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into two series: Series 1: Diaries, Correspondence, and Related Materials; Series 2: Manuscripts, Sketches, and Transcripts.
Custodial History
Papers were acquired in the early 1900s by New Orleans architect Moise H. Goldstein, perhaps from Mill’s grandson, Thomas Dabney Dimitry of New Orleans. They were definitely in his possession by 1916, as letters preserved in the collection testify. Goldstein gave the papers to Howard-Tilton Library in 1948. They were eventually placed with the Manuscripts Department, and then transferred to SEAA in 1980.
- Architecture -- Sketch-books Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Architecture -- United States -- History -- 19th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Tulane University Special Collections Repository
