use, and in 1886, commissioned architect Theophilus P. Chandler to design an imposing châteauesque Queen Anne mansion made of stone. It was located between 13th and 14th Streets and was one of Washington's most impressive mansions. Barber named it Belmont, after his second wife's hometown. In 1913, Belmont was sold by his son to developer Harry Wardman and razed in 1915 to allow for construction of the Clifton Terrace Apartments. In 1889, he purchased the Cunard place on Staten Island, which he lived in during the summer with his family for four seasons. In 1891, he purchased the Robert L. Stuart mansion at 871 Fifth Avenue at Sixty-eight street in New York after the death of Stuart's widow, where his family spent part of each winter. The home on Fifth Avenue was later sold to William Collins Whitney around 1897. In 1906, Barber an avid yachtsman, bought a 269-foot boat named the T.S.Y. Lorena, after his daughter. The yacht had a crew of 44 and comfortably held around 12 passengers. The United States government bought it from him for use in the First World War, and then scrapped it after the war. He was a trustee of Oberlin College from 1889 to 1909, and a director of Washington Loan and Trust. See also Freelan Oscar Stanley & Francis Edgar Stanley John Brisben Walker Stanley Motor Carriage Company Locomobile Company of America Mobile Company of America Irvington, New York Barber, New Jersey References External links "Scenes from the Past" The InTowner (November 2007) 1843 births 1909 deaths People from Rockingham, Vermont People from Irvington, New York Consolidated National Bank people 19th-century American businesspeople Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)