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Connecticut State Library lobby
Terminal Station, Chattanooga, TennesseeDonn Barber (1871–1925)[1] was an American architect.
He designed buildings that are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, including:
- Terminal Station, built 1908, 1434 Market St., Chattanooga, TN (Barber,Don) NRHP-listed[2]
- Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building, built 1908-1910, 231 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT (Barber,Donn and E.T. Hapgood) NRHP-listed[2]
- Capital City Club, 7 Harris St., NW, Atlanta, GA (Barber,Don) NRHP-listed[2]
He was born in 1871 and studied at Yale, then post-graduate courses at Columbia, "then at the Beaux Arts, Paris, where he was the ninth U. S. student to receive a diploma. After an apprenticeship in the offices of Carrere & Hastings, Cass Gilbert and Lord & Hewlett, he set up his own firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus Club, the Institute of Musical Art.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Arts:Donn Barber". Time magazine. June 8, 1925. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,723224,00.html.
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
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