J. Milton Dyer

J. Milton Dyer (April 22, 1870 – May 27, 1957) was an American architect based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Background Dwyer was born in Middletown, Pennsylvania where his father had a hardware business. In 1881 his family moved to the Rock's Corners area (near East 55th and Woodland Avenue) and Dyer attended Central High School, worked for Brown Hoisting where he earned a scholarship to Case Institute of Technology.

Professional career

He worked for Warner & Swasey (Ambrose Swasey and Worcester R. Warner's firm) for several years, and Frank Walker, Henry Weeks, and Reynold Hinsdale worked in his office. The club moved from a leased property at 968 Prospect Street to the Dyer building on 1 January 1905. "The exterior construction and the traditional interior decor of the building" have remained essentially the same since the club's beginning. He designed several buildings on Cleveland's Euclid Avenue.

Spirit of Progress J. Milton Dyer was selected as the architect for an exhibition of Cleveland products staged in 1909 called the Spirit of Progress. Erected in 47 days (March 30-May 24), the Exposition Building is said to have had "a larger ground floor exhibit area than any other exposition structure in the United States" with as well as the area of an armory and a bridge connecting the two buildings, for "a grand total of 114,656 square feet, a space greatly in excess of that of any previous home product exhibition".

The building included "wood covered with staff, and the fireproofed and waterproofed canvas roof is supported by three huge masts mounted on structural iron supports which are anchored to thirty-ton blocks of iron-weighted concrete. Republic Oil Company (1901) Cleveland First Methodist Church (1903–04), 3000 Euclid Ave. Windermere Presbyterian Church East Cleveland Premier Industries (1920) 4409 Euclid Avenue Cleveland Coast Guard Station, Cleveland (1940) 1 Lake Erie / United States Coast Guard Cleveland Harbor Station, 1000 Cuyahoga River Cooley Farms North of Warrensville Heights off Ohio 175, Warrensville Heights, Ohio East Point Manor South Shore Drive, Middle Bass Island, Ohio Edward W. and Louise C. Moore Estate 7960 Garfield Rd. Mentor, Ohio Jay M. Pickands House 9619 Lake Shore Blvd Bratenahl, Ohio Central National Bank (demolished) Cleveland First National Bank (demolished) Cleveland Venice Building 8401—8417 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio (demolished 2003)