MILNER, Warren Holder (1864-1949), born in Bloomington, Illinois, USA and later active in Seattle where he is first recorded in 1907 (Seattle City Directory, 1907, 824). In late 1908 Milner was one of eleven architects from the United States and Canada who submitted a design in the competition for the Horse Show Building at Hastings Park, West Georgia Street at Gilford Street, VANCOUVER, B.C., 1908-09; burned 1960 (Vancouver Daily World, 7 Dec. 1908, 14; 15 Dec. 1908, 12, illus. & descrip.; 18 Dec. 1908, 7, illus. & descrip.; 19 Dec. 1908, 17-18, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxiii, 6 Jan. 1909, 21; dwgs. City of Vancouver Archives). The runner-up in the competition was Henry B. Watson, who publicly criticized the design by Milner as being inferior to his own elaborate Edwardian proposal (see the critique by Watson of the winning design in the Vancouver Daily World, 14 Dec. 1908, 11, illus. & descrip.).
In Seattle, Milner formed a partnership with Edwin J. Ivey, as Milner & Ivey, in 1911-13. He also collaborated with John R. Wilson of Victoria, B.C. (see list of works under Wilson & Milner). His later works in Seattle include his design of the Fleming Apartments, 4th Avenue near Battery Street (1916), and the Ford-McKay Building, Westlake Avenue North at Mercer Street, 1922, now a listed building (Seattle Landmarks Board, Designation, April 2006). Milner died in Seattle on 21 June 1949 (obit. Seattle Times, 23 June 1949; D. Luxton, Building the West: The Early Architects of British Columbia, 2003, 477, 512; biog. J.K. Ochsner, Shaping Seattle Architecture, 2014, 462).