Millermore
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Marker Inscription
William Brown Miller (1807 - 1899) moved from Missouri to Texas in 1847 with his family. In 1855-62 he built this house on his farm east of Dallas. His twelfth child, Minera (1865 - 1960), inherited the house and named it Millermore. Her husband, Barry Miller (1864 - 1933), was a Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Herein lived also their daughter, Evelyn Miller Crowell, author of "A Texas Childhood." The house was dismantled in 1966 and reconstructed here in the 1970s. RTHL 1962
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Millermore is one of Dallas County's grandest surviving antebellum plantation houses. William Brown Miller brought his family from Missouri to the Texas frontier in 1847 and raised this Greek Revival home on his farm east of Dallas between 1855 and 1862. His daughter Minera inherited and named the place, and it passed down through a family that included a Texas lieutenant governor and an author; rescued from demolition, the house was dismantled in 1966 and rebuilt at its present site.
Why it matters
As a preserved antebellum homestead, Millermore embodies the westward push of American farm families onto the Texas prairie and the effort to save such architecture from a fast-growing city.
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Related people
- · William Brown Miller
- · Minera Miller
- · Barry Miller
- · Evelyn Miller Crowell
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