Peter Dollar

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

Monkenhurst, north London, designed by Peter Dollar.

Early life

Peter Dollar was born in Henley-on-Thames,^[1] Oxfordshire, in 1847.^[2]

Family

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]

Career

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]

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 Army^[10] who himself died in 1944 and is buried at the Ancona War Cemetery in Italy.^[5]