Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Donn Barber
Architect
Centurion, 1910–1925
John M. Carrère and Karl Bitter
Washington, District of Columbia
New York (Manhattan), New York
Age thirty-eight
Sleepy Hollow, New York
Century Memorial
In some respects Donn Barber was one of the most versatile of American architects. Standing always for simplicity of form and durability of construction, he divided his abounding individual energy between the construction of a long list of notable structures—such as the New York Cotton Exchange, the Lotos Club building, the National Park Bank, the Institute of Musical Art—and constant study of plans for relieving congestion on Manhattan Island or for developing the program, nearest of all to his own heart, of “Better Homes in America.” Like all of our best contemporary architects, he recognized that the effort of the artist must be directed to replacing, with a sense of architectural beauty, appropriateness and harmony, the nineteenth-century American appetite for the startling or the common-place.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1926 Century Association Yearbook
