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Miller House and Garden, Columbus, IN

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Miller House and Garden

Take a guided shuttle tour of Eero Saarinen's 1950s modernist house in Columbus, with its sunken conversation pit, Girard textiles and Dan Kiley gardens.

Tours start at the Columbus Area Visitors Center, 506 Fifth Street, Columbus, IN 47201 · Columbus, IN

About Miller House and Garden

Eero Saarinen designed this flat-roofed house for J. Irwin and Xenia Miller, who moved in in 1957, with interiors by Alexander Girard and gardens by Dan Kiley. It is a National Historic Landmark, and Newfields has run it as a house museum since it opened to the public in 2011. You can only see it on a guided tour that starts at the Columbus Area Visitors Center, where you park and ride a shuttle to the house. Children under 10 are not allowed, and you tour in socks or shoe covers.

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  • #historic house
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  • #gardens
  • #eero saarinen

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