Donn Barber
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{{Short description|American architect (1871–1925)}}
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| name = Donn Barber
| image = File:Donn Barber, architect, new york city-silo.jpg
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1871|10|19}}
| birth_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|5|29|1871|10|19}}
| death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
| known_for = {{ubl
| Terminal Station (1908)
| Lotos Club (1909)
| Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building (1908-1910)
| Berzelius Society building (1910)
| Travelers Tower (1919)
| New York Cotton Exchange (1923)
}}
| education = {{ubl
| École des Beaux-Arts, Paris;
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| occupation = Architect
| spouse = {{marriage|Elsie Yandell (1874–1939)|November 22, 1899}}
| relatives = Louise Serpa
| honors = FAIA
| nationality = American
| signature = Signature of Donn Barber.png
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Donn Barber FAIA (October 19, 1871 – May 29, 1925) was an American architect.
Biography
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Donn Barber was born on October 19, 1871, in Washington, D.C., the son of Charles Gibbs Barber and his wife, Georgiana Williams. Barber was a grandson of Hiram Barber.The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of United ... by James Terry White, Raymond D. McGill, H. A. Harvey, page 379
He studied at Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, New York, and graduated from Yale University in 1893, where he was chairman of the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record,"Donn Barber". Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1924-1925. New Haven: Yale University. August 1, 1925. p. 1492. 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 to America, he apprenticed in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett. Around 1900, he established his own firm. In 1923, Barber was elected an Associate member of the National Academy of Design.
In 1899 Barber married Elsie Yandell of Louisville, the sister of sculptor Enid Yandell.
Barber died on May 29, 1925, in Manhattan, New York City.{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,723224,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606015701/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,723224,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2008 |title= Donn Barber|publisher=Time magazine|date=June 8, 1925}}{{cite news |title=Donn Barb Dies In His Sleep At 53. Eminent Architect, Designer of the New Broadway Temple. President of New York Architectural League |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/30/archives/donn-barb-dies-inhis-sleepat-53-eminent-architect-designer-of-the.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 30, 1925 }}
Work
Barber's built work includes:
- Terminal Station, built 1908, 1434 Market St., Chattanooga, Tennessee, NRHP-listed{{NRISref|version=2009a}}
- 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
- Lotos Club, 110 West 57th Street, New York, New York, 1909Architecture, Volume 19, number 6, page 81
- Village Hall, 16–20 Croton Avenue, Ossining, New York, 1914
- Travelers Tower, downtown Hartford, Connecticut, 1919
- the New York Cotton Exchange, at 3 Hanover Square in Manhattan, 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, Georgia, NRHP-listed
- The Hartford Times Building, downtown Hartford, Connecticut, 1920.
- 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, Connecticut.jpg|Travelers Tower in Hartford, Connecticut
File:Terminal StationChattanooga.jpg|Terminal Station, 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
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Donn Barber |sopt=t}}
- Donn Barber works. [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery/da.html/ Held by the Department of Drawings & Archives], [http://library.columbia.edu/locations/avery.html/ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University].
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Category:American neoclassical architects
Category:19th-century American architects
Category:Burials at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Category:Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
Category:Fellows of the American Institute of Architects