BARBER, Lloyd Deloss (1880-1947) may have been trained in England or the United States before moving to Brantford, Ont. to open an office there. He was born in the township of Townsend, Norfolk County, south of Brantford. No information has been found on his education or training, but in 1906 it was reported that Lloyd Barber of Brantford had left that city and moved to Detroit, Mich. "....where he had secured a position with an architect in that city" (Brantford Daily Expositor, 1 Feb. 1906, 12). It may thus be assumed that he obtained training as an architect there. By 1910 he had returned to Brantford, and in 1911 he designed two distinctive houses in a Tudor Revival style, one for T.H. Preston and another for William B. Preston, both of which were clad in an unusual tapestry pattern of brickwork which was fashionable in domestic English architecture during this period. In early 1911 Barber was recorded in partnership with W.H. Fairchild, a surveyor and civil engineer, in the firm of Fairchild & Barber (Brantford Daily Expositor, 14 Jan. 1911, 7), but within weeks their business was dissolved, and Barber continued to practice under his own name.
In early 1914 he formed a new partnership with William C. Tilley and together they prepared an exceptional design for the Trusts & Guarantee Co. office in Brantford in 1914. It featured an exuberant and meticulously detailed terra cotta facade crowned by three female caryatids supporting the bold projecting cornice; the overall composition must certainly rank as one of the finest terra cotta facades in Ontario. One of the employees in his office during this period was Frank W. Nicolls (Brantford Daily Expositor, 23 Oct. 1916, 7). Barber moved to the Sacramento County area of California after 1920, and died in San Francisco on 5 February 1947 at the age of 62 years (obituary Brantford Expositor, 8 Feb 1947, 6).
L.D. BARBER (works in Brantford unless noted)
AVA ROAD, large residence for Major M.F. Muir, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 14 June 1911, 60; Brantford Daily Expositor, 5 Oct. 1912, 14, illus.)
(with Burke, Horwood & White) YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, Queen Street at Darling Street, 1911 (C.R., xxv, 23 Aug. 1911, 59)
(with Chapman & McGiffin) ROYAL LOAN & SAVINGS CO., bank and office building, Market Street, 1911 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 7 June 1911, 7, t,c.; and 5 Oct. 1912, 21, illus. & detailed architectural descrip.; C.R., xxv, 5 July 1911, 64)
DUFFERIN AVENUE, residence for William B. Preston, 1911-12 (C.R., xxv, 29 Nov. 1911, 61; and xxvii, 10 Dec. 1913, 102-04, illus & descrip.; Brantford Daily Expositor, 5 Oct. 1912, 13, illus.; Const., x, May 1917, 166-7, illus. & descrip.)
LORNE CRESCENT, residence for Claude Secord, 1912 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 5 Oct. 1912, 13, illus.)
DUFFERIN AVENUE, at Chesnut Avenue, residence for T.H. Preston, 1912-13 (C.R., xxvii, 10 Dec. 1913, 102-04, illus. & descrip.; Const., ix, June 1916, 194-5, illus. & descrip.)
SIMCOE, ONT., residence for Charles Innes, 1912 (C.R., xxvi, 24 Jan. 1912, 65, t.c.)
CARNEGIE LIBRARY, George Street at Darling Street, major addition of 2 storeys at rear of original library, 1913-14; still standing in 2023 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 26 April 1913, 17, illus. & descrip.; and 10 May 1913, 2, t.c.; and 20 Jan. 1914, 1)
EAGLE PLACE, a large 2 storey factory for the manufacture of sporting goods, 1913 (5 July 1913, 6)
ALICE STREET, a brick factory, for an unnamed client, 1913-14 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 18 Dec. 1913, 8, t.c.)
BARBER & TILLEY (works in Brantford unless noted)
TRUSTS & GUARANTEE CO. BUILDING, Dalhousie Street near Market Street, 1914; still standing in 2023 (Brantford Expositor, 15 May 1914, 9, illus. & descrip.; Toronto Region Architectural Conservancy, Terra Cotta-Artful Deceivers, 1990, 70-1, illus.)
NIAGARA SILK CO., Sarah Street at Drummond Street, or Park Avenue South (?), a large 3 storey factory & silk mills, 1914 (Brantford Expositor, 13 March 1914, 3; and 3 July 1914, 3, t.c.; and 2 Jan. 1915, 6, detailed descrip.)
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEMORIAL, King Street at Wellington Street, 1914-15, with sculpture by Walter S. Allward (Brantford Daily Expositor, 14 Nov. 1914, 1)
WATFORD, ONT., major addition and alterations to High School, 1915 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 23 July 1915, 3, t.c.)
CHESTNUT AVENUE, residence for Elmer L. Gould, c. 1916 (Const., ix, April 1916, 132)
PARK AVENUE, residence for Robert Hutchinson, c. 1916 (Const., ix, April 1916, 132)
L.D. BARBER
CAINSVILLE, ONT., Baptist Church, 1916 (Brantford Daily Expositor, 14 June 1916, 3, t.c.)