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J. Carroll Johnson (November 9, 1882 – May 4, 1967) was an architect in South Carolina. He was the first resident architect at University of South Carolina and supervised campus expansion. He designed numerous residences in Columbia's suburbs during the roaring 1920s. His work also includes the Lexington County Courthouse which is listed on the
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. He was born in Kristianstad, Sweden. He is buried at Elmwood Cemetery. The
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has photographs of some of his buildings including from the
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(catalogued along with musical documents from minstrel performer Carroll Johnson).


Work

* State Industrial School for Girls (1918) *First Presbyterian Church of
Kershaw, South Carolina Kershaw is a town in Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. It was incorporated in 1888. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,803, and as of 2019 the estimated population was 2,321. The Haile Gold Mine, where gold was discovered ...
(1920), *Three schools in Lancaster, South Carolina (1922) *Buildings on the University of South Carolina campus including: ** Sloan College (1927) **South Caroliniana Library wing additions (1927–1928) **Melton Observatory (1928) **Wardlaw College (1930–1931) **Sims Dormitory (1939) **Petigru College (1949) with Simons & Lapham of Charleston **LeConte College (1952) **Osborne Administration Building (1951 – 1952) **President’s House (1952), conversion and renovation * Lexington County Courthouse (1939 – 1940) with Jesse W. Wessinger in
Lexington, South Carolina Lexington is the largest town in and the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of the state capital, Columbia. The population was 23,568 at the 2020 Census, and it is the second-largest municipality in th ...
* First Baptist Church of West Columbia (1942)


Residential buildings

*Benjamin F. Taylor House (1910 – 1912) *Boyne-Pressley-Spigner House (1915) * Two houses for Dr. Robert E. Seibels in Columbia (1927 and 1933) *John T. Stevens House in Kershaw (1918) *James L. Coker, Jr. house (1923 – 1924) * J. B. Gilbert house (1929) *102 South Driftwood Drive in Columbia


Further reading

*“Dialogue With The Past’–J. Carroll Johnson, Architect, and the University of South Carolina, 1912–1956” Master’s thesis by Andrew Watson Chandler, University of South Carolina (1993) *“John C. Johnson, 84, Architect, Dies” Columbia State, May 5, 1967, page A7 *''The South Carolina Architects, 1885–1935: A Biographical Directory'' by John E. Wells and Robert E. Dalton, New South Architectural Press, Richmond, Virginia (1992)


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{{Authority control 1882 births 1967 deaths University of South Carolina people People from Kristianstad Municipality 20th-century American architects Architects from South Carolina Swedish emigrants to the United States