Peter Dollar ARIBA (1847 - 28 October 1943) was an English architect and surveyor noted for his cinema designs.
Peter Dollar was born in Henley-on-Thames, [1] Oxfordshire, in 1847. [2]
Dollar married Emily Ada (died 1937) and they had at least two sons, one born 22 October 1899 at 13 Hyde Park Square, Bayswater, London, [3] and a second, Graham, born in 1905 [4] and who died during the Second World War. [5]
Dollar designed Monkenhurst house in north London in 1880 [6] and The Majestic Picturedrome which opened in Tottenham Court Road in 1912. [7] He practiced from 44 Great Marlborough Street, London, (1879–92) [8] and later at Craig's Court House, Charing Cross, and 7 Arundel Street. He was an associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 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. [9]
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 Army [10] who himself died in 1944 and is buried at the Ancona War Cemetery in Italy. [5]
Peter Dollar ARIBA (1847 - 28 October 1943) was an English architect and surveyor noted for his cinema designs.
Peter Dollar was born in Henley-on-Thames, [1] Oxfordshire, in 1847. [2]
Dollar married Emily Ada (died 1937) and they had at least two sons, one born 22 October 1899 at 13 Hyde Park Square, Bayswater, London, [3] and a second, Graham, born in 1905 [4] and who died during the Second World War. [5]
Dollar designed Monkenhurst house in north London in 1880 [6] and The Majestic Picturedrome which opened in Tottenham Court Road in 1912. [7] He practiced from 44 Great Marlborough Street, London, (1879–92) [8] and later at Craig's Court House, Charing Cross, and 7 Arundel Street. He was an associate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 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. [9]
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 Army [10] who himself died in 1944 and is buried at the Ancona War Cemetery in Italy. [5]