Louis Millet

View through Louis J. Millet's thistle window originally from the Patrick J. King House and now at the James A. Patten House

Louis J. Millet (1856–1923) was an educator, industrial art school founder, and interior designer in the United States. He was a celebrated stained glass artist. He worked on Louis Sullivan projects and went into business with portraitist George Healy at the interior design firm Healy & Millet offering services including interior decoration, floor tiling, and wood mantels. He founded the Chicago School of Architecture in 1893, where multidisciplinary studies in industrial arts were offered with coursework at the Art Institute of Chicago and Armour Institute of Technology. Millet held academic posts at both institutions.

Millet patented a design for a prism light.

Millet made a thistle window for the Patrick J. King House's great room aa well as a similarly themed mosaic fireplace surround with thistle design.

From 1901 to 1903, Millet worked on perhaps his largest career commission at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Mississippi. Subcontracted to the Chicago contracting firm of W.A. and A.E. Wells (with headquarters in the Monadnock Building), Millet created a rich palette of stained and decorative glass windows, including the brilliantly colored opalescent windows in the Grand Staircase and the skylights for the chamber domes.

Work Stained glass for Sullivan's Auditorium Building and theater. Exhibited at the Paris World's Fair of 1889 and now part of the Musée d'Orsay's permanent collection. According to one source "changed the way Europe looked at ataijed glass." Thistle window from the James A. Patten house Friezes at Union Station (St. Louis) in St. Louis, Missouri. Stained glass windows at First Christian Church (1913) 840 3rd Ave. SE. Cedar Rapids. Windows were distributed by preservations when the church was demolished. Frescoes at the National Farmer's Bank of Owatonna in Owatonna, Minnesota with Louis Sullivan Oil on canvas stenciled decoration designed by Louis H. Sullivan at the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room. Now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Stained glass windows at Stained Glass Manor-Oak Hall 2430 Drummon Street in Vicksburg, Mississippi. A Maher project. Stencil decorations in the interior of Schiller Building's theater for Louis H. Sullivan Stained glass window Louis J. Millet designed for James J. Hill’s house on Canada Street in Lowertown and later installed in Louis W. Hill's house at 260 Summit Avenue Fireplace surround (1901) for the Patrick J. King House in Chicago. Now at LACMA A Maher project. 931 Lake Street church windows, Oak Park, Chicago Illinois McVickers Theatre that opened March 30, 1891 was designed by Adler & Sullivan and had decorating and painting by Healy & Millet as well as decor, terra cotta, plaster, curtains and steelwork by other firms. Stained glass window at Forrestville School on Forty-fifth street in Chicago memorializing teachers and students lost in the 1903 Iroquois Theater fire. Located on third-floor landing, window included victim's names: Minnie Schaffner, Walter Bissinger, Dora Reynolds, William Hennessy, Ernest and Erma Reynolds and Leon Frady. Pictured a young girl bearing a lamp, shading the flame with her hand. Dedicated May,1905. Mississippi State Capitol (1901–1903), stained and decorative glass windows and skylights