The Justice Samuel Freeman Miller House is a historic building in
Keokuk, Iowa
Keokuk is a city in and a county seat of Lee County, Iowa, United States, along with Fort Madison. It is Iowa's southernmost city. The population was 9,900 at the time of the 2020 census. The city is named after the Sauk chief Keokuk, who is ...
, United States. It is now operated as the Miller House Museum by the Lee County Historical Society. The significance of this house is its association with
Samuel Freeman Miller who had it built.
[ with ] Originally from
Kentucky, he was a physician and a lawyer with a national reputation. Miller was nominated by President
Abraham Lincoln to serve on the
United States Supreme Court in 1862. His was the first nomination to the court of a person who resided west of the
Mississippi River. He served on the court for 28 years.
Although he lived here for only two years, Miller always considered this his home.
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The house is a two-story structure designed in the Italianate style. It has an exposed basement on the rear of the structure. The brick residence is capped with a low-pitched hip roof and bracketed ]eaves
The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural styl ...
. The bracketed porch on the main level features a balcony on the second floor. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[
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References
External links
Miller House Museum
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Houses completed in 1859
Italianate architecture in Iowa
Houses in Keokuk, Iowa
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Iowa
Museums in Lee County, Iowa
Historic house museums in Iowa