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English architect and surveyor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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