Nationality USA Occupation Architect | Other names Gladys Jacquelyn Good Other name Gladys Jacquelyn Good | |
Born December 9, 1926 ( 1926-12-09 ) Riverton, New Jersey Known for A well-known Terre Haute, Indiana architect. Died September 1993, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States | ||
Gladys Jacqueline Good "Hap" Miller (December 9, 1926- September, 1993) was an American architect active in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1950 to 1979, primarily specializing in residential architecture.
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Biography
Gladys Jacqueline Good was born on December 9, 1926 in Riverton, New Jersey to Paul and Ella Mabel Good. She married Edwin Harry Miller, a native of Terre Haute, on December 18, 1948 in a ceremony at Calvary Presbyterian Church. The two met while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Miller and her husband moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she worked as a draftsman until 1951. The two moved to Terre Haute in 1951, where they continued to live and raise their family, until her death in September 1993. Her family, friends, and colleagues knew her familiarly as “Hap” or “Happy”.
Practice
Miller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1949 with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. In 1948 she received the Beaux Arts Institute of Design Award, now the Van Alen Institute in New York City, which enabled her to travel extensively throughout Europe before beginning her career. Upon her return, Miller worked as a draftsman in the offices of Alfred Bendiner (1948–50) and Bolton, Martin & White (1950) in Philadelphia. In 1951 she moved to Terre Haute]], where she became the third registered woman architect in Indiana. She began her career in Indiana working as a draftsman for Miller & Vrydagh from 1951 to 1953, and then as a designer for Miller, Vrydagh & Miller from 1954 to 1957. In 1958 Miller established her own architecture firm, Gladys J. Miller Architect. She worked primarily in residential architecture, in or around Terre Haute, Indiana.