William L. Johnston

Jayne Building, 242-44 Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA (1849-50, demolished 1957).

William L. Johnston (1811–49) was a carpenter-architect who taught architectural drawing at the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia, and won a number of important Philadelphia commissions. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38 after a trip abroad for his health.

Philadelphia buildings

Other buildings

In addition to his Philadelphia buildings, Johnston was commissioned in 1847 to design the Orange Grove Plantation House in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Intended for Thomas A. Morgan, a descendant of the prominent Morgan family of Pennsylvania, the house was the last Gothic revival mansion built in antebellum Louisiana. It featured Tudor elements and meticulous hand-crafted details that were built in Philadelphia and transported to Louisiana to be assembled there.[9]

Publications

William Johnson Architect published with Peter Nicholson the Thirteenth Edition of The Carpenter's New Guide Being a Complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery; Grigg, Elliot and Co., Philadelphia, 1848. The printers were T. K. and P. G. Collins, Printers of Philadelphia. The book is listed as number 835 in Henry-Russell Hitchcock's American Architectural Books published in American before 1895.

References

  1. Phil-Ellena at Bryn Mawr College
  2. John Thomas Scharf & Thompson Westcott, History of Philadelphia, (Philadelphia: 1884), pp. 1211-12
  3. 1851 panorama showing Bank of Commerce from Bryn Mawr College
  4. R. A. Smith, Philadelphia as it is in 1852 (Philadelphia, 1852), p. 105.
  5. Rev. Gloucester and Central Presbyterian Church from Plan Philly
  6. Hood Cemetery Gate from Flickr
  7. Jayne Building at Historic American Buildings Survey
  8. Charles E. Peterson, "Ante-Bellum Skyscraper", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 9:3 (Oct. 1950), pp. 25-28.
  9. Matrana, Mark R. (2009). Lost Plantations of the South. University Press of Mississippi. p. 199. ISBN 1578069424.

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