Thomas C. Miller Public School is a historic

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building located in Fairmont,

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. It was built in 1914 with an annex added in 1928. The original building is

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in style with Jacobethan style detailing in the entrance surrounds. The architect was

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. The 1928 annex is a three-story brick building with concrete foundation, laid in the Flemish garden wall (Sussex) bond.

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was the architect. The school was named for Thomas Condit Miller, an educator in Fairmont, professor of education at West Virginia University, State Superintendent of Schools for West Virginia, and ninth principal of

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. It was listed on the

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in 2013.

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