Alan Balch Mills

• American

Alan B Mills (1887-1963) of the Washington, DC, firm of Mills and Petticord. Mills had served as New Jersey State Architect (1922-29), then joined the New York firm of Pennington, Lewis and Mills, before coming to Washington in 1934 as executive assistant to the Supervising Architect of the United States. After the war, his firm designed the east and west wings of the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum and was associated with the firm of McKim, Mead and White in designing the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology- NRHP