 In 1929 the building was expanded to include a gymnasium, swimming pool, large library, more classrooms manual arts workshop, an auditorium with a seating capacity of 825 and a first-class home economics department.Miller was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina in 1863, and graduated from Howard University in 1886.He was the first black admitted to Johns Hopkins University when he began his graduate studies in mathematics, physics, and astronomy.