STANHOPE SPENCER JOHNSON, who practiced architecture from 1898 until 1966, was Lynchburg, VA-based, with projects from New York to Texas.
FROM HOSPITALS to factories, arcades to piggeries, log cabins to mansions to public housing; from banks to theaters, gymnasiums to cemeteries, courthouses to car dealerships.
A MASTER of Georgian Revival, accomplished in Art Deco, proficient in Prairie, fluent in International, with touches of Tudor and splashes of Spanish, plus the occasional Vernacular.
CONSUMMATE CRAFTSMAN. How to design. How to build. How to paint. How to decorate. How to landscape.
FLEXIBLE. Versatile. Multifaceted.
AND, STORY after interesting story. Intrigue. Challenges. More than architecture.
As of December 2025, the BOOK IS AVAILABLE here on the website.
After five years of research based on the Lynchburg Architectural Archive at Jones Memorial Library, which contains most of Johnson's plans and papers, in 2018 Carolyn Gills Frazier completed "Stanhope, chronologically." In Lynchburg, the book is available from Blackwell Press, 1318 Church Street, 24504. $55 plus sales tax (and shipping if you order through the website). 320 pages, 9.5" by 12.0" on glossy paper, fascinating illustrations on dust jacket, 359 footnotes, 8 appendices including a Lynchburg directory, 20 page commissions list, 627 illustrations plus approximately 82,000 words.
After five years of research based on the Lynchburg Architectural Archive at Jones Memorial Library, which contains most of Johnson's plans and papers, in 2018 Carolyn Gills Frazier completed "Stanhope, chronologically." In Lynchburg, the book is available from Blackwell Press, 1318 Church Street, 24504. $55 plus sales tax (and shipping if you order through the website). 320 pages, 9.5" by 12.0" on glossy paper, fascinating illustrations on dust jacket, 359 footnotes, 8 appendices including a Lynchburg directory, 20 page commissions list, 627 illustrations plus approximately 82,000 words.
