Barton, Harry

Birth/Death:    b. 17 June 1876 – d. 09 May 1937

Occupation:    American architect

Location:    Greensboro, NC

Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 1922-decease

Biographical Directories:

Entry in Henry F. Withey, A.I.A., and Elsie Rathburn Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Los Angeles: New Age Publishing Company, 1956. Facsimile edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc., 1970)

Biographical information:

Contributed by NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center:

Harry Barton was born in 1876 and died in 1937. He was an important North Carolina architect based in Greensboro. Barton worked in the Tudor Revival style for several residential designs. He also designed many educational and civic buildings in Georgian Revival and Neoclassical styles, including buildings on the campus of the Unversity of North Carolina-Greensboro.

The American Institute of Architects Archives

      Membership file contains membership application; complaints about the obstacles to registration when he headed the state board of examiners from E. Dwight Ryerson, Arthur H. Howland, Ross Schumacher, O. G. Foard, and Ronald Greene; letter of reference; and notification of death. The complaints include considerable detail about the North Carolina registration process and examination questions circa 1921. Click link to download membership file See the membership record for William H. Lord for Barton’s account of the car accident in which Lord died.

NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center

MC 00144 Harry Barton Architectural Drawings, 1923-1924

The Harry Barton Architectural Drawings consists of seven blueprint drawings of the S. H. Tomlinson House, located at 403 Hillcrest Drive, High Point, North Carolina. These architectural drawings include floorplans, elevations, and building details, and they date from 1923-1924.

Link to online finding aid: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/findingaids/mc00144/