Donn Barber

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

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, 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.

Work Barber's built work includes: Terminal Station, built 1908, 1434 Market St., Chattanooga, Tennessee, NRHP-listed 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 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) 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.

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