It earned that reputation after industrialist and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller and his wife, Xenia Simons Miller, paid prominent architects' commissions on public buildings throughout the city in order to infuse Columbus with fresh, modern art and architecture. | Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.|Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:103-1).|Forms part of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.