- 1864 - Temporary structure in Academy Park for the Army Relief Bazaar.
- 1879-83 - Federal Building on Broadway.
- 1884 - Richardson Building, Burlington, Vermont.
- 1886 - Dickson's house, 503 State Street.
- 1886 - Bronze tablets throughout Albany to commemorate the city's bicentennical.
- 1892 - The Strecker Memorial Laboratory in collaboration with Frederick Clark Withers.
- 1892 - U.S. Immigration Bureau building, Ellis Island
- 3 brick structures for the Almshouse with Withers.
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In the same school of H. H. Richardson's Romanesque Revival style, Walter Dickson has worked both in Albany and New York City. He is perhaps best known for the Albany Post Office, now part of SUNY Plaza on Broadway and the Albany City Prison, otherwise known as "the tombs." And though his mark on Albany is not as obvious as Richardon's, Dickson was respected in the architectural community; in 1877, he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
The Romanesque Revival style emphasizes broad arches, rough-faced stones, asymmetry of the building as a whole, and stone and brick masonry. This style, while not seen on a grand scale in Dickson's works, surfaces in combination with the architect's use of contemporary influences as that of Richardson's, and an utility to optimize the geological environment. Dickson's own house, on 503 State Street is a perfect example of the Romanesque Revival style that also makes the best use of the flatiron environment.
Dickson worked with H.G. Emery, a draftsman under his employment, on the Elks Building, 138 State Street, now the residence of the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.
In 1889, Dickson moved his office to New York City and began a partnership with Withers. Their collboration produced several key structures in New York City, most notably the Strecker Memorial Laboratory in Roosevelt Island. Again, the Romanesque Revival Style appears in the structure through its' cathedral-like T-shaped layout. The lack of the Gothic style, a mode favored by Withers, alludes to the Strecker Memorial being mainly Dickson's project.
In his later years Dickson oversaw the construction of the U.S. Immigration Bureau buildings on Ellis Island. He also became deeply involved in city structures, prisons in particular. His firm, Withers & Dickson, was prominent in the New York City scene, going up against the Tammany methods.
Walter Dickson died on September, 1903 in his home in Brooklyn, New York.
Attributed to Walter Dickson
- 1889 - Emery's House, 116 South Lake Avenue.