New Haven

Carina Eaglesfield Mortimer Milligan (1890-1978) was an American architect, who joined Anne Morgan (1873-1952)’s Comite Americain de Secour Civil / CASC, during WWII, after the death of her first husband. Unlike most young architects, Eaglesfield Milligan went into private practice immediately after her graduation from the Cambridge School of Architecture, and was still practising "well into her 80s… From her primary residence in Sunset Hill, New Canaan, Connecticut, she completed primarily residential projects throughout Connecticut and New York. Although she was educated in the 1920s in more traditional, Classical styles, by the 1930s she was embracing contemporary architecture and designed what is thought to be one of the earliest examples of the International Style in residential architecture in New Haven, Connecticut (in fact, the 1936 home she designed for a leading geology and geophysics professor at Yale was known as “the ice box” by shocked neighbors!). Just a short two years before her death in 1978, she told the AIA, “What a satisfying interest architecture has been!” (Madam Architect, online).