Milton L. Grigg

Milton Grigg (1905–1982) was a Virginia architect best known for his restoration work at Colonial Williamsburg and Monticello. In his career as an independent architect in Charlottesville, Virginia, he worked as a modernist within the Jeffersonian tradition.

Biography

Milton LaTour Grigg was born in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied architecture at the University of Virginia in the late-1920s. Between 1929 and 1933 he worked on restorations at Colonial Williamsburg. In 1933, Grigg established his office in Charlottesville. Floyd Johnson was added as a partner in 1936. That partnership lasted until 1940, when Grigg associated with William Newton Hale, Jr. By 1977, the firm was known as Grigg, Wood, and Browne.^[1]

Notable works

• Emmanuel Church (Greenwood, Virginia), Greenwood, Virginia
• Ramsay (Greenwood, Virginia), Greenwood, Virginia
• Braddock Street United Methodist Church (Winchester, Virginia)
• Marquis Memoril United Methodist Church (Staunton, Virginia)

References

1. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form". Ramsay. Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources. 2010-11-27. http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Albemarle/002-0844_Ramsay_2005_Final_Nomination.pdf. 

External links

• Grigg at Monticello
• Work on embassy, Canberra

Further reading

• Lasala, Joseph Michael. (2009). The curriculum vitae of a classicist. Magazine of Albemarle County History, 67, 14–51. (Overview of Grigg's life and career.)

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Name	Grigg, Milton L.
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Date of birth	1905
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Date of death	1982
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