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Name
  
Donat Baribault


Born
  
1885
New Haven, Connecticut

Known for
  
Donat R. Baribault, Architect

Died
  
1970, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Donat R. Baribault (1885–1970) was an American architect who designed a number of Catholic churches, schools, convents and rectories in Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

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Early life and career

Baribault was born in New Haven Connecticut and attended school in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada, later studying architecture at the École Polytechnique de Montréal(1909). He also studied privately with Professor J Haynes of Montreal.

Architectural practice

After school he spent the years 1912-17 as an architect in Winnipeg, Canada. Thereafter he moved to Springfield, Massachusetts where he worked for 2 years as a designer for the architectural firm of S.M. Green before starting his own practice.

He was a member of the Architectural Society of Western Massachusetts for whom he served as Secretary (1942–43) and President (1944–45).

New Hampshire

  • Mary Keane Chapel, Enfield, New Hampshire
  • Sacred Heart Church, Concord, New Hampshire
  • Assumption Church, Dover, NH
  • Novitiate Oblate Fathers, Hudson, NH

    • Massachusetts

  • Notre Dame Church, Worcester, MA
  • St. Cecelia Church, Leominster, MA (with Albert J. Roy, Supervising architect)
  • Notre Dame Rectory, Southbridge, MA (church by Joseph Venne)
  • St. Joseph Rectory, School and Convent, Springfield, MA (Baribault was a parishioner here)
  • Immaculate Conception Church, Holyoke, MA
  • Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, Turners Falls, MA

    • References

    Donat R. Baribault Wikipedia
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