Loring McMillen was a Staten Island historian who preserved the works of Alice Austen and worked to restore Historic Richmond Town. He was born in Staten Island in 1906. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he majored in civil engineering, and he took courses in architecture at Columbia University. After graduation, he returned to Staten Island and worked at the New York Telephone Company for 38 years.

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  • Loring McMillen was a Staten Island historian who preserved the works of Alice Austen and worked to restore Historic Richmond Town. He was born in Staten Island in 1906. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he majored in civil engineering, and he took courses in architecture at Columbia University. After graduation, he returned to Staten Island and worked at the New York Telephone Company for 38 years. He spent weekends sketching and photographing old houses and buildings, and that is where he met William T. Davis in 1929. Davis was President of the Staten Island Historical Society. McMillen then became the society’s youngest member in 1931, and he joined the board in 1932. McMillen with Davis and Charles W. Leng in 1932 saved the Richmond County Clerk’s and Surrogate’s office in Richmondtown, Staten Island. These buildings were built in 1848 and sat empty when the county seat moved north to St. George, Staten Island in 1920. He died in 1991, shortly after his 85th birthday.
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  • Loring McMillen was a Staten Island historian who preserved the works of Alice Austen and worked to restore Historic Richmond Town. He was born in Staten Island in 1906. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he majored in civil engineering, and he took courses in architecture at Columbia University. After graduation, he returned to Staten Island and worked at the New York Telephone Company for 38 years.
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  • Loring McMillen
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