Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Glasgow, for biography and early works of whom see A. Stuart Gray, Edwardian Architecture (1985), 260-261, and Dictionary of Scottish Architects (www.scottisharchitects.org.uk>). Miller was a shortlisted entrant in the Belfast City Hall competition of 1896,(1) and, when he was in his mid-seventies, designed the BBC Headquarters in Ormeau Road, Belfast, begun in 1938.(2)

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(1) B 71, 5 Dec 1896, 470; plan(s) in Academy Architecture I (1898), 82.
(2) IB 80, 22 Jan 1938, 55.


2 work entries listed in chronological order for MILLER, JAMES [2]#


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Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, DONEGALL SQUARE, CITY HALL
Date: 1896
Nature: Competition entrant, on initial shortlist of 3.
Refs: B 71, 5 Dec 1896, 470; plan(s) in Academy Architecture I (1898), 82 (copy in National Monuments Record of Scotland)

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, ORMEAU AVENUE, NO. 025 (BBC HEADQUARTERS)
Date: 1936-39
Nature: 6-storey, steel framed building with facing of sand-faced bricks on artificial stone base.Estimated cost: £70,000.
Refs: IB 79, 9 Jan,7 Aug 1937, 30,696; 80, 22 Jan,19 Feb,15 Oct 1938, 55,140,874; 81, 4 Mar 1939, 194; AJ 87, 10 Feb 1938, 237 (illus.); Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 91 (no. 212, illus.); Marcus Patton, Central Belfast: an historical gazetteer (UAHS, 1993), 253