The Reverend Donald McDonald-Millar sketchbook(ca. 1919)

• MS 1989.5
• 1 item (20 pp.)

Rough sketches of the interiors and exteriors of several Williamsburg, Virginia houses.

Donald Millar (1884–1973), he trained as an architect in Nashville Tennessee, but later attended the Theological Seminary in New York City. He met William Sumner Appleton in 1910 at the time of the founding of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, and as a result set to work measuring, analyzing and making restored drawings of 17th and 18th-century east coast houses. A subsequent publication was the three volume set Measured Drawings of Some Colonial and Georgian Houses, published 1916–1930 (Special Collections, NA 707.M54). In 1928 Colonial Williamsburg engaged him to do research work in England and France. His drawings and blueprints for Colonial Williamsburg are in the Library’s architectural drawings collection. Donald Millar changed his name to Donald McDonald-Millar in the late 1920s to honor his mother, and his publications may be found under both styles.