David Hyer

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.[1]

David Burns Hyer
BornMay 21, 1875
Charleston, South Carolina
DiedDecember 11, 1942
OccupationAmerican architect

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.[2] 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[3]

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).[4] 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);[5] 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.[6]

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.[7][8][9]

Architectural Work – Partial Listing
  • 57 and 59 Gibbes St., Charleston SC - 1915[10][11]
  • Garden Theater, 371 King Street, Charleston, SC – C. K. Howell and D. B. Hyer - 1918[12]
  • Y.W.C.A., Charleston, SC - 1918
  • Buist School, 103 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC - 1920[13]
  • W.T. Grant & Co. building, 265-267 King St. - 1920[14]
  • Charleston High School, Charleston, SC - 1921[15]
  • St. Barnabas Lutheran Church, 45 Moultrie Street, Charleston, SC – 1922[16]
  • King Street Apartments, Charleston, SC (County Hall) - 1922[17]
  • First National Bank Building, Holly Hill, SC - 1922[18]
  • Trustees School, North Charleston, SC - 1922[19]
  • Andrew B. Murray Vocational School, 3 Chisolm Street, Charleston, SC - 1923[20]
  • Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, 98 Wentworth Street, Charleston, SC - 1923[21][22]
  • Charleston Heights Baptist Church - 1923[23]
  • Winyah Indigo School, Georgetown, SC - 1924
  • Charleston Country Club, Charleston, SC - 1925 (as associate architect with Parsons & Co. of Boston, MA)[24]
  • Pounds Motor Company Building, 162 W. Plant St., Winter Garden, FL - 1925
  • Grace Phillips Johnson Estate; 1005 Edgewater Drive, Orlando, FL - 1928[25]
  • A. E. Arthur One-Stop Service Station, Orlando, FL - 1929[26]
  • Old Station 9, 1099 King Street, Charleston, SC - 1933[27]
  • Charleston County Courthouse (original 1792 Statehouse) additions, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, SC - 1941[28]
  • Julian Mitchell School (now Mitchell Elementary)[29]
  • Rutledge Avenue Baptist Church, Charleston - 1917[30]
  • Rutledge Avenue Baptist Church (addition)[31]
  • Ben Tillman School (now the Ronald McNair School)[32][33]
  • 57 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915)
    57 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915)
  • 59 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915)
    59 Gibbes St., Charleston, SC (c. 1915)
  • 265-267 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1920)
    265-267 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1920)
  • 45 Moultrie St., Charleston, SC (c. 1922)
    45 Moultrie St., Charleston, SC (c. 1922)
  • 3 Chisolm St., Charleston, SC (c. 1923)
    3 Chisolm St., Charleston, SC (c. 1923)
  • 1099 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1933)
    1099 King St., Charleston, SC (c. 1933)

References
  1. Hiers Family Genealogy, by Hiers Research Committee, 1974, p. 522
  2. "Engineering News Record", Volume 129, 1949.
  3. The Generations Network (2007), "Descendants of John Hyer", Outline Descendant Tree, Provo, Utah: 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. "Two Boulevard Houses". (Charleston, SC) Evening Post. November 14, 1915. p. 11.
  11. "Building Permits Issued". (Charleston, SC) News & Courier. December 5, 1915. p. 19.
  12. Great American Movie Theaters, by David Naylor, Preservation Press, 1987, Page 112
  13. Poston, Jonathan H. (1997), The Buildings of Charleston, Charleston: Historic Charleston Foundation/USC Press, p. 428, ISBN 1-57003-202-5.
  14. "Changes Are Many on King Street". Charleston News & Courier. April 26, 1920. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
  15. The American Contractor, Volume 42, page 82
  16. Minutes of the Convention of the Lutheran Church in America, 1922, page 478
  17. Manufacturers' record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 80
  18. Manufacturers' record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 123
  19. Manufacturers' Record, Volume 81, Issues 14-26; page 122
  20. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  21. Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Consecration of Grace Church By William Way, 1923, page 78
  22. "Home". gracechurchcharleston.org.
  23. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  24. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, September 5, 1932 at 10.
  25. "Eclectic Mediterranean Revival in Orlando". 14 June 2009.
  26. Manufacturers' Record, Volume 95, Issues 14-19; page 109
  27. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, January 20, 1933 at 14.
  28. "Charleston County Courthouse". Archived from the original on 2007-07-07.
  29. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  30. John E. Wells and Robert E. Dalton, The South Carolina Architects, 1885-1935, A Biographical Directory (Richmond, 1992), p. 80
  31. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  32. Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier, December 12, 1942 at 2.
  33. "7 Public Works Total $1,500,000". Charleston News & Courier. September 26, 1938. p. 3. Retrieved January 14, 2013.

Further reading
  • Ravenel, Beatrice St. Julien (1904-1990); Julien, Carl (photographs); Carolina Art Association (1992). Architects of Charleston. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. p. 295. ISBN 0-87249-828-X. LCCN 91034126.
  • Wells, John E.; Dalton, Robert E. (1992). The South Carolina architects, 1885–1935: a biographical dictionary. Richmond, Virginia: New South Architectural Press. ISBN 1-882595-00-9.

See also
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