Donat R. Baribault

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.

Early life and career

Baribault was born in New Haven Connecticut and attended school in Three Rivers 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).

Works include

New Hampshire

• Mary Keane Chapel, Enfield, New Hampshire ^[1]
• Sacred Heart Church, Concord, New Hampshire
• Assumption Church, Dover, NH
• Novitiate Oblate Fathers, Hudson, NH

Massachusetts

• Notre Dame Church, Worcester, MA^[2]
• 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

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