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

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, in 1847.

Family

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

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

Career

Dollar designed Monkenhurst 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

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

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. He was an associate member of the

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. 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.

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. 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