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Stanley Miller commissioned the recently arrived, English-born architect William J. Carpenter (1864-1953) to design this four-story mixed-use, retail and residential apartment building just after Spokane's large fire of 1889. It measured 50 x 85 feet at its base and featured a delightful combination of Richardsonian Romanesque details and Sullivanian ornamentation. The Sherman Clay Company, a San Francisco-based retailer of pianos moved into the Miller Building in 1914, requiring extensive remodeling of the first-floor retail spaces. At this time, some of the former apartments became used for commercial offices. In later years, the Spokane Falls Gas Light Company and a hotel, the New Jersey Rooming House, rented space in the Miller Block. By 1924, three telegraph companies, one large, the Western Union Company, and two small, the Spokane Northern Telegraph Company and District Telegraph, and a dance studio--an Arthur Murray Dance Studio franchise--had rented rooms; other rooms were rented by business people and professional men.

The Miller Building and the neighboring Whitten Building were combined in 1985 to form the Hotel Lusso.