Carneal and Johnston Glass Negatives,
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 23 glass dry plate negatives of architectural drawings made by the architectural firm Carneal and Johnston for various VPI campus buildings they designed, including the originial McBryde Hall and the original library/Gymnasium building, as well as proposed plans for an Alumni Hall (never built) and the Upper Quad Conversion (never built). Many of the plates are undated, but appear to come from the 1910s.
Dates
- c.1910s
Creator
- Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) (Architect, Organization)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from Carneal and Johnston Glass Negatives collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical/Historical note
J. Ambler Johnston was born in 1885 and was a 1904 graduate of Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute. He also earned a master of science degree in 1905 from VPI. Johnston resided in Richmond, Virginia, where he served as a charter member of the Richmond Rotary Club and was a Civil War scholar. He died in 1974.
William Leigh Carneal, Jr., was born in Richmond on October 24, 1881, and graduated in 1903 from the Virginia Military Institute. He began his architectural practice around 1906 following a three year stint as a clerk in his father's company, Sitterding-Carneal-Davis Company. He died in 1958.
In 1908, Carneal and Johnston combined offices. The firm's first building was the original McBryde Hall on the VPI campus, completed in 1917. The firm helped to incorporate the Collegiate Gothic style to the campus landscape. For a brief period, the firm included a third partner and was known as Carneal, Johnston, & Wright. Both Carneal and Johnston retired in the 1950s. In 1999, the surviving firm of Carneal and Johnston merged with Ballou, Justice, & Upton Architects.
Extent
0.6 Cubic Feet (2 boxes [23 (8 x 10) glass dry plate negatives])
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection consists of 23 glass dry plate negatives of architectural drawings made by the architectural firm Carneal and Johnston for various VPI campus buildings, including some that were never built, c.1910s.
Arrangement
The 23 glass plate negatives are arranged in two boxes in the order that the plates were originally numbered.
Acquisition Information
The Carneal and Johnston Glass Plate Negatives were purchased by University Relations and given to Special Collections in October 2014.
Alternate Form Available
The glass plates have been scanned and the images are available online.
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 115, VPI General Plan, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 93, VPI Gynasium Group Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, 1914 (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 64, VPI Main Tower, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 89, VPI Dormitory Section Side Elevation, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 182, Proposed VPI Alumni Hall First Floor Plan, Carneal and Johnston Architects, October 31, 1916 (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 61, VPI General Plan (Master Plan), Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 107, Scale Drawings of VPI Shop Building Front and East Elevations, Carneal and Johnston Architects, December, 1913 (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 116, VPI Main Tower Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 95, VPI General Plan, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 98, VPI Front Elevation Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 92, VPI Front Elevation Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 96, VPI Prospective Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 114, VPI Dormitory Wing Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 97, VPI Dormitory Section Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 65, VPI Prospective Main Group, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 181, Proposed VPI Alumni Hall Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, October 31, 1916 (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 155, VPI Dormitory Wing Exterior and Front Elevation Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 118, VPI Prospective Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 117, VPI Front Elevation, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 90, VPI Dormitory Section Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 91, VPI Main Tower Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 94, VPI Prospective, Carneal and Johnston Architects, n.d. (Ms2014-016)
- Glass Plate Negative, No. 113, VPI Gynasium Exterior, Carneal and Johnston Architects, 1914 (Ms2014-016)
- Title
- Carneal and Johnston Glass Negatives, c.1910s
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Special Collections Staff
- Date
- © 2016 Virginia Tech. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)
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Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
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