Donn Barber
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| Born | Donn Barber October 19, 1871 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | May 29, 1925 (aged 53) Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation | Architect |
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| Spouse(s) | Elsie Yandell (1874–1939)
(m. 1899) |
| Relatives | Louise Serpa |
| Honors | FAIA |
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Donn Barber FAIA (October 19, 1871 – May 29, 1925) was an American architect.[1][2]
Biography[]
Barber was born on October 19, 1871 in Washington DC, the son of Charles Gibbs Barber, and the grandson of Hiram Barber.[3]
He studied at Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, New York, and graduated from Yale University in 1893, where he was chairman of campus humor magazine The Yale Record[4] and a member of the Berzelius Society.
After Yale, he took post-graduate architectural courses at Columbia University, 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, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm around 1900. In 1923, Barber was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member.
In 1899 Barber married Elsie Yandell of Louisville, the sister of sculptor Enid Yandell.
He died on May 29, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City.[1][2]
Work[]
Barber's designs include:
- Terminal Station, built 1908, 1434 Market St., Chattanooga, TN, NRHP-listed[5]
- Berzelius Society building, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1910
- Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building, built 1908–1910, 231 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT (with E.T. Hapgood) NRHP-listed[5]
- Lotos Club, 110 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 1909[6]
- 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)[7]
- Capital City Club, 7 Harris St., NW, Atlanta, GA, NRHP-listed[5]
- 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.[1]
Gallery[]
Travelers Tower in Hartford, Connecticut
Terminal Station, Chattanooga, Tennessee
The Capital City Club in Atlanta, Georgia
Berzelius Society Building (circa 1908) in New Haven, Connecticut
The Hartford Times Building (1920)
Lobby of the Connecticut State Library
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Donn Barber". Time magazine. June 8, 1925. Archived from the original on June 6, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Donn Barb Dies In His Sleep At 53. Eminent Architect, Designer of the New Broadway Temple. President of New York Architectural League". The New York Times. May 30, 1925.
- ^ The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of United ... by James Terry White, Raymond D. McGill, H. A. Harvey, page 379
- ^ "Donn Barber". Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1924-1925. New Haven: Yale University. August 1, 1925. p. 1492.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Architecture, Volume 19, number 6, page 81
- ^ The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Volume 113, Issue 2, page 2150
External links[]
- Works by or about Donn Barber at Internet Archive
- Donn Barber works. Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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- American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
- Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
- 20th-century American architects
- People from Washington, D.C.