Ben Milam

The granddaughter of Ben Milam recently emailed me some scans of newspaper clippings and black and white photographs associated with her grandfather's architectural career. She granted me permission to post them. Milam was an architect of some acclaim who resided on Galveston Island. His period was the 1930s through early '50s, his most prevalent style appearing to have been Art Deco or Streamline Moderne.



Stephen F. Austin Junior High School, c.1939


A 1939 Houston Post article about the school


The Original Hill's Restaurant, c. 1940
I ate there a few times as a kid during the '70s. It is no longer there, I believe. Demolished by man, it once sat on Seawall Blvd.

I'd never realized this building was originally the Coca-Cola factory in Galveston. By my time, '70s/'80s, it was a series of restaurants, usually Mexican food.


"Four Apartment Building" plans


The S.S. Galveston/U.S.S. Galveston/Mayflower Hotel

Drove or rode by this place many times. Such a shame it was demolished (2006)! It had become sort of seedy by my time ('70s, '80s). It was also up on the Seawall.


Galveston Cotton Exchange, c. 1940
And a couple pictures of mine, of the 1950 circa, Pennington Buick Co.: