Background
Henry O. Milliken was born in 1884 at Stamford, Connecticut, United States/
Henry O. Milliken was born in 1884 at Stamford, Connecticut, United States/
At the age of eighteen he entered Princeton University. Later Mr. Milliken completed four years of architectural study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Upon his return to this country began his career in the Chicago office of David Adler and Rober Work, specialists in residential work. In 1919 he moved to New York, and during the early twenties formed a partnership with Newton P. Nevin (Milliken & Nevin), with offices at No. 154 East 61st Street, and continued in practice under the firm name until 1942 when he retired.
Interested mainly in planning homes of distinguished character, Mr. Milliken designed and supervised work in sixteen states of the U. S., also in Bermuda,Puerto Rico and Hawaii, while the best known examples of his residences were in New York City and environs. He was also co-author with Philip Goodwin of "French Provencal Architecture" published in 1924.
Active throughout his career in several professional groups, Mr. Milliken was a member of the Beaux Arts Institute in New York, serving at one time as Chairman of the Committee on Design, also he devoted much time to the encouragement of architectural students attending Cooper Union and the Greenwich Village Workshop.