David Hyer

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American architect (1875–1942)

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::summary American architect (1875–1942) ::

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nameDavid Burns Hyer
birth_dateMay 21, 1875
birth_placeCharleston, South Carolina
death_dateDecember 11, 1942
occupationAmerican architect
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| name = David Burns Hyer | birth_date = May 21, 1875 | birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina | death_date = December 11, 1942 | occupation = American architect | years_active = David Burns Hyer (May 21, 1875 – December 11, 1942) was an American architect who practiced in Charleston, South Carolina and Orlando, Florida during the first half of the twentieth century, designing civic buildings in the Neoclassical Revival and Mediterranean Revival styles.

Biography

David Burns Hyer was born on May 21, 1875, in Charleston, South Carolina, the youngest son of James S. Hyer and Ella Payne. Hyer served as a civil engineer at the Charleston Navy Yard and for many Southern railways, before opening his own private architectural practice in Charleston. Hyer’s Charleston office was located in the People's Building.

David Hyer married Sally Yeadon Mazyck, daughter of James Mazyck, in June 1904; they had four children: David B Hyer Jr., Yeadon Mazyck Hyer, Robert Payne Hyer and Helen Hyer

Active in Charleston (see partial list of works below) Hyer was a member of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). By the early 1920s the Hyers established a home in Orlando. Hyer worked in association with Daytona and Winter Park architect John Arthur Rogers (father of architect James Gamble Rogers II); he also listed his architectural business in the Orlando city directories. As such, it was one of only 10 architectural firms listed in 1926, the others including: Frank L. Bodine, Fred E. Field, Murry S. King, Maurice E. Kressly, George E. Krug, Howard M. Reynolds, Frederick H. Trimble. Ryan and Roberts (Ida Annah Ryan and Isabel Roberts) and Percy P. Turner. It was one of 12 firms so listed in Orlando in 1927. During the 1920s Hyer maintained Orlando offices first in the Rose Building and later in the Phillips Block on South Orange Avenue.

Hyer's best and most visible Orlando work is the Grace Phillips Johnson Estate on Edgewater Drive. The grand Mediterranean Revival home is on a narrow isthmus between Lake Adair and Lake Concord, with sweeping views across Lake Concord to downtown Orlando. The house once had three murals by Florida artist Sam Stoltz, only one remains, a peacock.

James Gamble Rogers II managed David B. Hyer's Orlando office in 1934; by 1935 Hyer had moved back to Charleston permanently. Hyer continued to practice architecture in South Carolina as late as 1941. Hyer died on December 11, 1942, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Architectural Work – Partial Listing

  • 57 and 59 Gibbes St., Charleston SC - 1915
  • Garden Theater, 371 King Street, Charleston, SC – C. K. Howell and D. B. Hyer - 1918
  • Y.W.C.A., Charleston, SC - 1918
  • Buist School, 103 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC - 1920
  • W.T. Grant & Co. building, 265-267 King St. - 1920
  • Charleston High School, Charleston, SC - 1921
  • St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 45 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC – 1922Minutes of the Convention of the Lutheran Church in America, 1922, page 478
  • King Street Apartments, Charleston, SC (County Hall) - 1922
  • First National Bank Building, Holly Hill, SC - 1922
  • Trustees School, North Charleston, SC - 1922
  • Andrew B. Murray Vocational School, 3 Chisolm Street, Charleston, SC - 1923
  • Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC - 1923
  • Charleston Heights Baptist Church - 1923
  • Winyah Indigo School, Georgetown, SC - 1924
  • Charleston Country Club, Charleston, SC - 1925 (as associate architect with Parsons & Co. of Boston, MA)
  • Pounds Motor Company Building, 162 W. Plant St., Winter Garden, FL - 1925
  • Grace Phillips Johnson Estate; 1005 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL - 1928
  • A. E. Arthur One-Stop Service Station, Orlando, FL - 1929
  • Old Station 9, 1099 King Street, Charleston, SC - 1933
  • Charleston County Courthouse (original 1792 Statehouse) additions, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, SC - 1941
  • Julian Mitchell School (now Mitchell Elementary)
  • Rutledge Avenue Baptist Church, Charleston - 1917
  • Rutledge Avenue Baptist Church (addition)
  • Ben Tillman School (now the Ronald McNair School)

Gallery

File:57 Gibbes.jpg|57 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915) File:59 Gibbes.jpg|59 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915) Image:265-267 King - Jan 2013.JPG|265-267 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1920) File:St Barnabas Lutheran Church.JPG|45 Moultrie St., Charleston, SC (c. 1922) File:Murray-school-building-charleston-sc1.jpg|3 Chisolm St., Charleston, SC (c. 1923) File:Fire House 9.jpg|1099 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1933)

References

References

  1. ''Hiers Family Genealogy'', by Hiers Research Committee, 1974, p. 522
  2. "Engineering News Record", Volume 129, 1949.
  3. The Generations Network. (2007). "Outline Descendant Tree". genealogy.com.
  4. Journal of the AIA, 1913, page 400.
  5. The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II, by Patrick W McGlane and Debra A. McGlane, pp. 15 & 16.
  6. Orlando Telephone Directories, 1925-1929
  7. rsmeader on ancestry.com, posted March 7, 2009
  8. Engineering News Record, 1942, page 13
  9. See a photo of David Hyer's grave at this link: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36050508
  10. (November 14, 1915). "Two Boulevard Houses". (Charleston, SC) Evening Post.
  11. (December 5, 1915). "Building Permits Issued". (Charleston, SC) News & Courier.
  12. Great American Movie Theaters, by David Naylor, Preservation Press, 1987, Page 112
  13. Poston, Jonathan H.. (1997). "The Buildings of Charleston". Historic Charleston Foundation/USC Press.
  14. (April 26, 1920). "Changes Are Many on King Street". Charleston News & Courier.
  15. The American Contractor, Volume 42, page 82
  16. Manufacturers' record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 80
  17. Manufacturers' record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 123
  18. Manufacturers' Record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 122
  19. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  20. Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Consecration of Grace Church By William Way, 1923, page 78
  21. "Home".
  22. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  23. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, September 5, 1932 at 10.
  24. (14 June 2009). "Eclectic Mediterranean Revival in Orlando".
  25. Manufacturers' Record, Volume 95, Issues 14-19; page 109
  26. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, January 20, 1933 at 14.
  27. "Charleston County Courthouse".
  28. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  29. John E. Wells and Robert E. Dalton, The South Carolina Architects, 1885-1935, A Biographical Directory (Richmond, 1992), p. 80
  30. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  31. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  32. (September 26, 1938). ["7 Public Works Total $1,500,000"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uP9fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mwkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1340,1948133&dq=david+hyer+charleston&hl=en}}{{Dead link). Charleston News & Courier.

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