Peter Dollar

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(1847 - 28 October 1943) was an English architect and surveyor noted for his cinema designs.

Early life

Peter Dollar was born in

Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...

, in 1847.

Family

Dollar married Emily Ada (died 1937) and they had at least two sons, one born 22 October 1899 at 13

Hyde Park Square Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted, garden square one block north of Hyde Park fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village neighbourhoods of Bayswater, Lon ...

Bayswater Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...

, London, and a second, Graham, born in 1905 and who died during the Second World War.

Career

Dollar designed

Monkenhurst Monkenhurst is a house in the Victorian Gothic style at 15 The Crescent on the north edge of New Barnet in London, England. It overlooks Monken Hadley Common. The house was built in 1880 to a design by Peter Dollar and was once the home of the c ...

house in north London in 1880Monken Hadley: Introduction.
British History Online. Retrieved 3 June 2017. and The Majestic Picturedrome which opened in Tottenham Court Road in 1912. He practiced from 44

Great Marlborough Street Great Marlborough Street is a thoroughfare in Soho, Central London. It runs east of Regent Street past Carnaby Street towards Noel Street. Originally part of the Millfield estate south of Tyburn Road (now Oxford Street), the street was named ...

, London, (1879–92) and later at Craig's Court House, Charing Cross, and 7

Arundel Street Arundel Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Strand in the north to Temple Place in the south. It is on land once occupied by Arundel House and its gardens. Location Arundel street runs from Strand in the nort ...

. He was an associate member of the

Royal Institute of British Architects The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

. According to John Heathfield of the Friern Barnet & District Local History Society, he is credited with introducing the idea of a raked or sloping floor in his early cinemas.

Death and legacy

Dollar died on 28 October 1943 at 13 Hyde Park Square. He left an estate of £28,567. Probate was granted at Llandudno to his son Major Graham Dollar of the British ArmyProbate Calendar 1944. p. 696. who himself died in 1944 and is buried at the Ancona War Cemetery in Italy.DOLLAR, GRAHAM.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...

. Retrieved 3 June 2017.

References

Architects from Oxfordshire 1847 births 1943 deaths English surveyors People from Henley-on-Thames Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects {{UK-architect-stub