Miller House (Fogo)

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This two-and-a-half storey residence was built in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. It is presumed to have been constructed for the Miller family who, at one time, had a shop attached to the right side of the house. (The shop is now apart from the house in a comparatively new structure.) What makes this house distinctive is the degree of elaboration in its decoration. The pagoda-shaped roofs of the square bays and the porch are trimmed with heavy fretwork of inverted tulips and interlacing. There is a structural oddity in the cladding of the house as well. While the lower half of the walls are clad in ordinary clapboard, the upper storey is clad in clapboard in imitation of masonry. The ceilings of the interior halls are panelled -- a feature found in no other Newfoundland house of the period.

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