Background
Myers, Denys Peter was born on April 23, 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Denys Peter and Ethel May (Johnston) Myers.
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Historic Architecture of Maine: The Maine Catalog-Habs
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Denys Peter Myers
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Bachelor of Science, Harvard University, 1940; graduate studies, Fogg Art Museum, 1949-1950; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1948.
Career
Assistant reference department, New York Public Library, 1941-1942; charge exhibitions, New York Public Library, 1942-1943; instructor, Hunter College, New York City, 1947; director, The Art Institute of Chicago, Zanesville, Ohio., 1947-1955; director, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1955-1958; director, Des Moines Art Center, 1958-1959; assistant director, Baltimore Museum Art, 1959-1964; director, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, 1964-1966; visiting lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, 1962-1964; historian, National Park Service, unites states department Interior, 1966-1968; principal architectural historian, Historic American buildings Survey, Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Washington, 1968-1973; private practice consultant architectural historian, Washington, 1973-1978; consultant, Faulkner, Fryer and Vanderpool (Architects), Washington, 1975-1983; architectural historian, Historic American buildings Survey, National Park Service, Department Interior, Washington, 1978-1985. Lecturer Smithsonian Institution, 1974-1978, 91, Catholic U. American, 1966-1967.
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Membership
Ordained perpetual deacon Episcopal Church, 1954. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member American Architectural Foundation (member of advisory committee), Society Architectural Historians (founding member, director 1962-1965, president Latrobe chapter 1975-1977), Alexandria Association (president 1968-1969), Victorian Society in American (director 1970-1972), Alexandria Library Company (president 1982-1983), Alexandria History Society, Steamship Hist.Soc., Preservation Round Table, Society for Preservation New England Antiquities, History Alexandria Foundation.
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Married Anne Buchonis, August 24, 1940.
