Carolina Theatre and Hotel Blueprints
Scope and Contents
Original set of blueprints from the Carolina Theatre and Hotel, now the Roger L. Stevens Center, from it's construction by Stanhope S. Johnson and Ray O. Brannan Architects.
Dates
- 1927
Creator
- Johnson, Stanhope Spencer, 1881-1973 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Stanhope S. Johnson was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1881, and began work in architecture at the age of seventeen in the office of Edward G. Frye, and later became a partner in the architectural firm of McLaughlin, Pettit and Johnson. From 1925 to 1932, Johnson associated with architect Ray O. Brannan as Johnson and Brannan, along with draftsman and designer Addison Staples.
Johnson designed at least two notable buildings in North Carolina, the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham and the Carolina Theatre and Hotel in Winston-Salem, as well as other buildings in Virginia.
Upon his death in 1975, many of Johnson’s drawings were donated to the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg which forms the majority of the Lynchburg Architectural Archive.
Source:
Bishir, Catherine W. and Chambers, S. Allen. Johnson, Stanhope S.
, North Carolina Architects & Builders, 2015. https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000597.
Extent
1 Volumes (1 bound set of architectural blueprints.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Katherine M. Hanna, 2022
Processing Information
Materials were placed in an acid-free folder.
- Architecture Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Carolina Theatre and Hotel Blueprints
- Author
- Kait Dorsky
- Date
- March 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the UNC School of the Arts Archives Repository
