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.
Dollar designed Monkenhurst house in north London in 1880[5] and The Majestic Picturedrome which opened in Tottenham Court Road in 1912.[6] He practiced from 44 Great Marlborough Street, London, (1879–92)[7] 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.[8]
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[9] who himself died in 1944 and is buried at the Ancona War Cemetery in Italy.[10]