Clark, Dillon Prosser | Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada

CLARK, Dillon Prosser (1850 - 1918) was a leading architect of Bay City, Michigan who prepared a competent design for the Methodist Church, LEAMINGTON, ONT., 1890 (Leamington and Its Churches, 1902, illus.). Born in Medina County, Ohio on 20 October 1850 he trained as a mason with his father, and entered business as a contractor there while devoting his spare time to the study of architecture. He moved to Michigan in 1882, and four years later opened an office in Bay City where his best known works include the Phoenix Block (1887) and the Ridotto Block (1891). He later made a specialty of designing ecclesiastical and civic buildings, and prepared plans for the Methodist Episcopal churches at Calumet, Greenville, Owosso, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (biography and list of works in A. Gansser, History of Bay County, Michigan and Representative Citizens, 1905, 584-85). Clark died in Bay City on 12 August 1918.