The architects: Hubert Miller, and a firm that is not his

One architect is named for a Lakeville building at nomination strength — and the obvious firm identification is a trap, refused here. Hubert Miller of Elkhart drew the 1931 Lakeville High School: the nomination record gives the attribution, the blueprints' date (4 August 1930), the parcel's purchase (28 May 1930, from George and Elizabeth Holland, $3,618.45), and the building's Register listing (29 August 1991, ref. 91001166) — the fullest architect file this build holds for any local building (the remainder file). Miller's own firm line does not stand in any carrier: searches return Miller and Yeager of Terre Haute — a different firm, a different city, refused by geography and by name-form; no partnership, training, or other-work line for the Elkhart Miller is printed, because none was verified. At the county boundary stands this section's second attribution: George W. Freyermuth and R. Vernon Maurer, architects of the county infirmary's 1906 main building (the charities file) — South Bend's professional class at its documented strength. The residue stands named: the SHAARD architect fields and the nomination files read entire would carry both men's oeuvres; the trap's lesson — that an architect's name is an identifier, to be verified like any other — is the article's discipline.

Principal sources: the banked this history lk-rem-architecture (the nomination record whole); the charities file of this section (Freyermuth and Maurer); searches of November 2026 for the Miller firm line, as stated.