Miller House

It didn’t hurt to be friends with a founder of a college. Miller House, as it became, was named after Elizabeth Smith Miller, the daughter of Gerrit Smith, a prominent abolitionist in New York. Elizabeth grew up in a house that was aligned with the Underground Railroad and devoted her life to the suffrage movement. As a good family friend to William Smith, he offered to name a dormitory after Miller, as the need for female housing grew in 1909. Today, 44 St. Clair Circle stands as one of four all-female residence halls on “the Hill,” housing 42 students.