Donn Barber

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(October 19, 1871 – May 29, 1925) was an American architect.

Biography

Barber was born on October 19, 1871 in

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, the son of Charles Gibbs Barber, and the grandson of Hiram Barber. He studied at Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, New York, and graduated from

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in 1893, where he was chairman of campus humor magazine ''

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'' and a member of the Berzelius Society. After Yale, he took post-graduate architectural courses at

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, and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Paul Blondell and Scellier de Gisors. He was the ninth American student to receive a diploma. After returning and serving apprenticeships in the offices of Carrere & Hastings,

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and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm around 1900. In 1923, Barber was elected into the

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as an Associate member. In 1899 Barber married Elsie Yandell of Louisville, the sister of sculptor

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. He died on May 29, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City.

Work

Barber's designs include: *

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, built 1908, 1434 Market St., Chattanooga, TN, NRHP-listed * Berzelius Society building,

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, 1910 * Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building, built 1908–1910, 231 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT (with E.T. Hapgood) NRHP-listed * Lotos Club, 110 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 1909 * Village Hall, 16–20 Croton Avenue, Ossining, New York, 1914 * Travelers Tower, downtown Hartford, Connecticut, 1919 * the New York Cotton Exchange, New York, New York, 1923 (from a 1912 competition design)The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 113, Issue 2, page 2150 * Capital City Club, 7 Harris St., NW, Atlanta, GA, NRHP-listed * The Hartford Times Building, downtown Hartford, Connecticut * The Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford * The Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. * and in Manhattan: the National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Institute of Musical Art.

Gallery

File:Travelers Tower, Hartford, CT - view 1.JPG, Travelers Tower in Hartford, Connecticut File:Terminal StationChattanooga.jpg,

, Chattanooga, Tennessee File:Capital City Club.jpg, The Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia File:Yale Berzelius Society.JPG, Berzelius Society Building (circa 1908) in New Haven, Connecticut File:Hartford Times Building.jpg, The Hartford Times Building (1920) File:Lobby PS.jpg, Lobby of the Connecticut State Library

References

External links

* * Donn Barber works
Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives
{{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Donn 19th-century American architects 1871 births 1925 deaths Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni Yale University alumni American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Fellows of the American Institute of Architects 20th-century American architects People from Washington, D.C.