C1: 143
ca. 1908–1924
194 glass-plate negatives, 21 film negatives
C1:143 Presentation drawing of Colonial Theater at 714 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Signed Hughson Hawley, 1919. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_162)
Architects William Leigh Carneal Jr. (1881–1958) and James Markam Ambler Johnston (1885–1974) founded their firm about 1908, after a year working independently but sharing office space in Richmond. Carneal & Johnston went on to become one of the most prolific and long-lived architectural practices in the state, by 1950 having shaped the distinctive architectural character of central Virginia, especially Richmond, with the completion of more than 1,300 buildings. The architects worked on a wide range of project types, from the mundane to the monumental, suburban bungalows to a proposed but never realized Ninth Street Victory Arch.
Amassed by the firm for documentary and promotional purposes, the Carneal & Johnston Collection photographically captures interior and exterior views of many commercial and municipal buildings, bridges, factories, apartments, and private residences, and includes a number of concept drawings entered into architectural competitions. Some of the most notable and easily recognizable structures represented in the collection include the First Virginia Regiment Armory (1913), the Richmond Dairy (1914) with its colossal milk bottles, the Colonial Theater (1919–1920), the Virginia State Office Building (1922–1923), and many collegiate gothic structures on the campuses of Richmond College (now the University of Richmond) and the Virginia Military Institute.
Arrangement and access:
The entire collection is available through DigiTool. The firm’s original numbering scheme has been maintained, though its rationale seems neither strictly chronological nor thematic.
Provenance:
Purchased 2009
Related resources and collections:
Accession 43738, Carneal & Johnston Architectural Drawings and Plans, 1911–1990, Library of Virginia
C1:143 J.B. Mosby & Co. dry goods store, 201-205 West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_010) C1:143 Presentation drawing for the First Virginia Regiment Armory at 7th and Marshall Streets, Richmond, Virginia. Also known as the Richmond Grays Armory. The armory was built in 1913 to replace the 1882 armory on the same site. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_027) C1:143 Richmond Dairy Company building at Jefferson and Marshall Streets, Richmond, Virginia. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_032) C1:143 Exterior of Ellerslie, in Colonial Heights, Virginia. Carneal & Johnston renovated the estate for the owner, David Dunlop III, in 1910. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_045) C1:143 Presentation drawing for the Baptist Home for Aged Women at Grove Avenue and Harvie Street, Richmond, Virginia. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_074) C1:143 Engine house for Engine Company No. 13 of the Richmond Fire Department, on Bainbridge Street at 10th Street, Richmond, Virginia. Carneal & Johnston Negative Collection (LVA 10_0038_cj_132)