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Name: J Milton Dyer

Birth/Established: April 22, 1870 Death/Dissolved: May 27, 1957

Biography:

J. Milton Dyer was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania where his father had a hardware business. In 1881, his family moved to the Willson (E.55th Street) and Woodland Avenue area, then known as Rock's Corners. He attended Central High School. He went to work for Brown Hoisting where he earned a scholarship to the Case Institute of Technology. He continued to work there during the summer. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1906, the Architectural Record published an article on his work where he was highlighted as one of a growing number of professionally educated architects settling in smaller American cities. Significant architectural talent came out of his office including Frank Walker, Harry Weeks, and Reynold Hinsdale. He also worked for Warner & Swasey for several years.

He lived on East 71st Street until the last few years of his life. He never married, living with his mother until her death in 1923 and then with his sister until her death in 1954. He then went on to live in a rest home in Cleveland Heights. He was not listed as a registered architect in the November 1940 Ohio Architect listing. He died at the age of eighty-seven and is buried in Woodland Cemetery.

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Building Name	Date	Address	Status
Anderson Hall - Asheville...	1899	Asheville School Road Asheville	Standing
Additions to Brown Hoisti...	1901	4403 St. Clair Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Brown Hoisting Machine Co...	1901	4301-11 Hamilton Avenue Cleveland	Standing
George Kuhlman Car Compan...	1901	Collinwood Cleveland	Standing
Republic Oil Company	1901	Kinsman Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Several rooms of Case Sch...	1901	Cleveland	Standing
George N. Chandler Reside...	1902	Cleveland Heights	Demolished
Herrick Memorial Library	1902	101 Willard Memorial Square Wellington	Standing
Burns Residence	1903	Overlook Drive Cleveland Heights	Demolished
Hotel	1903	Broadway & Ontario Cleveland	Demolished
Small store for Samuel Do...	1903	Dodge and St. Clair Cleveland	Demolished
Brooklyn Bank Building	1904	3764 West 25th Street Cleveland	Standing
Guardian Trust Building	1904	322-6 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Mill Street School	1904	West 30th and Walton Cleveland	Demolished
Treadway Residence	1904	8911 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
W.F. Dodge Residence	1904	Euclid Heights Cleveland	Demolished
Windermere Presbyterian C...	1904	Euclid Avenue and Windermere Street East Cleveland	Standing
First Methodist Church	1905	3000 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Stables and garage for Mt...	1905	near Chagrin Falls Cleveland	Demolished
Tavern Club	1905	3522 Prospect Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Terrace for Mr. A. Silver...	1905	1841 E. 73rd Street Cleveland	Demolished
National Malleable Castin...	1906	NW corncer Platt and E.79th Cleveland	Demolished
National Malleable Castin...	1906	Sharon, PA Sharon	Demolished
Peerless Motor Car Factor...	1906	East 82nd and Quincy Cleveland	Demolished
City Hospital Dormitory	1906-7	Warrensville, Ohio Warrensville	Demolished
First National Bank	1906-8	241 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Summit County Courthouse	1906-8	209 South High Street Akron	Standing
G. F. Gund Residence	1907	Shaker Heights Shaker Heights	Demolished
Gillsy Hotel	1907	1891-21 East 9th Street Cleveland	Demolished
St. Paul's Episcopal Chur...	1907	300 East Exchange Street Akron	Demolished
Taylor's Department Store...	1907	630 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Westminster Presbyterian ...	1907	1443 Addison Road Cleveland	Standing
Francis Line Residence	1908	1574 East 108th Street Cleveland	Standing
Residence for A. Chisholm	1908	Lake Shore Boulevard Cleveland	Demolished
Henry Osborn Residence	1909	11101 Magnolia Drive Cleveland	Standing
James Ferris Residence	1909	10924 Magnolia Drive Cleveland	Standing
Lake County Courthouse	1909	25 North Park Place Painesville	Standing
Spirit of Progress	1909	Cleveland Industrial Exposition Cleveland	Demolished
Sterling Welch Store	1909	1235 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Swassey Observatory	1909	Denison University Granville	Standing
Edmund Burke Residence	1910	11125 Magnolia Drive Cleveland	Standing
Cleveland Athletic Club	1911	1118 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
M.T. Silver & Company	1911	2310-20 Superior Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Cleveland City Hall	1911-16	601 Lakeside Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Maplewood Beach Hotel	1912	Lake Shore Boulevard Euclid	Demolished
Reserve Terminals	1912	1300 East 45th Street Cleveland	Standing
Standard Manufacturing Co...	1913	4409 - 15 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Standing
Commercial Building	1914	5713-17 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
U.S. Treasury Building	1915	301 Pine Street San Francisco	Standing
Union National Bank	1915-16	300-8 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
Venice Apartments	1922	8409 Euclid Avenue Cleveland	Demolished
U. S. Coast Guard Clevela...	1940	1 Cuyahoga River Cleveland	Standing
Alpine Village	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Brooklyn Heights Cemetery...	nd	Cleveland	Unknown
E.W. Moore Residence	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
H. H. Johnson Residence	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Loftus Cuddy Residence	nd	Overlook Road Cleveland	Demolished 1968
Ramsey Apartment anad Sto...	nd	Alliance	Unknown
Samuel Dodge Residence	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Standard Manufacturing	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Warner and Swassey Additi...	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Warrensville Farm - Infir...	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Warrensville Farm - Tuber...	nd	Cleveland	Demolished
Warrensville Farm - Workh...	nd	Cleveland	Demolished

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(Cleveland) News 10 - 27 - 1908

Cleveland News October 20, 1953 "Veteran Architect Got His Start at 7".

Cleveland Plain Dealer "Dyer to Design City Hall Plans" - October 7, 1903

Cleveland Topics 31-33:4 October 10, 1903

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History p352

Obituary Plain Dealer May 28, 1957

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