Background
John Barney was born 1869 in New York, United States.
John Barney was born 1869 in New York, United States.
John graduated from Columbia College, and after a period of preliminary study in New York, United States he completed his training in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France.
Upon his return to this country, Mr. Barney opened an office to practice in New York, and in the following years was actively engaged in designing a number of churches, hotels and commercial buildings. Among these were Grace Church Chapel on West 13th Street; Church of the Holy Trinity, East 88th St., (1899); Hotel Navarre, on Seventh Avenue at 39th St. (1899); new building at Hoffman Hall, Broadway near 26th St., Reviliion Building on West 28th St. and the Emmet Building, 95 Madison Avenue, an office building designed in association with S. R. Colt (1912). Outside of New York the Hart Memorial Library at Troy, N. Y., was built from Mr. Barney’s plans, also two churches in Richmond, Va., Holy Trinity and All Saints.
During the last decade of his life Mr. Barney gave up architectural practice to devote his time to art, painting in both oil and water colors, and was at the height of his fame as an artist when taken by death at the age of fifty-six.