Michael Middleton Dwyer

Michael Dwyer graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1975 and received a master's degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

He was associated from 1981–96 with the architecture firm Buttrick White & Burtis, where he was a member of the project team that designed the Saint Thomas Choir School, a fifteen-story boarding school in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1987.[2][3] He helped design the Dana Discovery Center in New York City's Central Park, completed in 1993 as part of the Central Park Conservancy's rehabilitation of the Harlem Meer. In an interview with the magazine Progressive Architecture in December 1993, Dwyer noted that the building's "picturesque character" reinforced the park's "romantic landscape design."[4] In 1992–93, he was part of the team of architects that restored Bonnie Dune, the Southampton residence of Ambassador Carl Spielvogel and his wife, the preservationist Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, a project executed in collaboration with the interior designer Jed Johnson.[5]

During his time at Buttrick White & Burtis, Dwyer was an advocate of New York's prewar, classical style of architecture. In a 1995 survey by The New York Times of New York's then-emerging neoclassical school of architecture, the reporter Patricia Leigh Brown noted that, "Michael Dwyer...an architect at Buttrick White & Burtis...has recently completed a classical-style yacht and an $8.95 million town house on the Upper East Side and is renovating Rudolph Nureyev's former apartment in the Dakota."[6]

In 1996, after establishing his own firm, Dwyer was the architect for the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument in New York City's Riverside Park, designed by the landscape architects Kelly/Varnell, with a statue sculpted by Penelope Jencks. The surrounding granite pavement contains inscriptions designed by Dwyer, including a quotation from Roosevelt's 1958 speech at the United Nations advocating universal human rights.[7] In 1997, he restored the exterior of the George F. Baker House, a designated New York City landmark, and from 1998–2008, he was the architect for the restoration of the Cosmopolitan Club, a private social club for women.

In addition to institutional projects, Dwyer designed residential projects for the upper strata of New York's private sector, working for clients such as Eddie Lampert, Scott Bessent, Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel. The financier Dick Jenrette, who called Dwyer his "favorite young neoclassical architect," commissioned him to build a pair of classical pavilions at Edgewater, Jenrette's Hudson River Valley villa.[8] The July 2018 issue of Architectural Digest featured Hollyhock, Dwyer's design for a new house in Southampton for the real-estate executive Mary Ann Tighe, comparable in scale and detail to the pre-war houses of architects such as David Adler and John Russell Pope.[9][10]

• 35 Meter Cruising Yacht (completed 1995).[11]
• Nureyev Apartment, The Dakota, New York City (completed 1995).
• Eleanor Roosevelt Monument, Riverside Park, New York City (dedicated 1996).[12]
• George F. Baker Jr. House, 75 East 93rd St., New York (restoration completed 1997).
• Garden Pavilion and Poolhouse, Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed 1997).[13]
• Longview (Residence), Gin Lane, Southampton, NY (completed 2001).[14]
• Mead Point Residence, Greenwich, CT (completed 2001).[15]
• Lampert Residence, Greenwich, CT (completed 2001).
• Stone Cottage (Residence), Toylsome Place, Southampton, NY (completed 2004).
• Cosmopolitan Club, New York City (restoration completed 1998–2008).
• New Sommariva (Residence), Jefferys Lane, East Hampton, NY (completed 2009).
• Hollyhock (Residence), Ox Pasture Road, Southampton, NY (completed 2015).[16]
• Triplex Penthouse, San Remo, Central Park West, New York City (completed 2017).[17]
• Meadowlark Lane Residence, Bridgehampton, NY (completed 2017).

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  Inscription of Adlai Stevenson Quote at the Eleanor Roosevelt Monument (dedicated in 1996).
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  Biographical plaque, Eleanor Roosevelt Monument (dedicated in 1996).
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  The George F. Baker Jr. House, New York City (restored in 1997).
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  River Facade of the Garden Pavilion at Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed in 1997).
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  Venetian Window of the Garden Pavilion at Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed in 1997).
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  Entrance Facade of the Garden Pavilion at Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed in 1997).
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  Poolhouse at Edgewater, Barrytown, New York (completed in 1997).
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  Longview, Southampton, New York seen across Lake Agawam (completed in 2001).
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  New Sommariva, East Hampton, New York (completed in 2009).
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  Hollyhock, Southampton, New York (completed in 2015).

• Michael Dwyer, with a foreword by Mario Buatta. Carolands (Redwood City, CA: San Mateo County Historical Association, 2006).
• Michael Dwyer, ed., with preface by Mark Rockefeller. Great Houses of the Hudson River (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001).

• Buttrick White & Burtis
• Dick Jenrette

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michael Middleton Dwyer.

• Architectural Digest July 2018
• Website of Michael Dwyer Architect
• Institute of Traditional Architecture 2015 Rankings.
• Franklin Report Card at The Franklin Report.

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