Less than two weeks before Ezra Stoller photographed the house and garden, George Newlin (who worked for the Millers) wrote to landscape contractor James Maschmeyer to ensure “that the outside planting be completely in order.”

George W. Newlin to James Maschmeyer, 17 March 1958, 2/11 (MHG_Ia_B002_f011_039); George W. Newlin to J. Irwin Miller, 20 March 1958, 2/11 (MHG_Ia_B002_f011_31), Miller House and Garden Collection, IMA Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.