On New Years Eve 1927 fired gutted the business of W.W. Miller destroying $150,000.00 worth of stock. The Miller family lived in a second floor apartment and they lost all their household furnishings, clothing and priceless family treasuers. Up from the ashes rose the Miller Block.

Image courtesy Biggar Museum & Gallery View of 200 Block showing Miller Block c.1940

Newspaper ad The Independent, April 22, 1926