Lindley Johnson was a noted Philadelphia Architect. Johnson was born in the Germantown

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Germantown is a neighborhood in the northwest section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, about 7–8 miles northwest from the center of the city...

 neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Germantown Academy

Germantown Academy

Germantown Academy is America's oldest nonsectarian day school, founded on December 6, 1759 . Germantown Academy is now a K-12 school in the Philadelphia suburb of Fort Washington, having moved from its original Germantown campus in 1965...

 before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

 in 1875. He went on to be trained at École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

 for three years.

Johnson spent one year in the office of Frank Furness

Frank Furness

Frank Heyling Furness was an acclaimed American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his eclectic, muscular, often idiosyncratically scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan...

, another noted Philadelphia architect before starting his own firm.

He was one of the founders of Philadelphia's T-Square Club.

Notable Buildings

• Designed than 20 commissions on Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Maine. Including the Winter Harbor Yacht Club, the Episcopal Church, and The Grindstone Inn.

• Princeton Club (Philadelphia)
  Princeton Club (Philadelphia)
  The Princeton Club in Philadelphia was located in two joined buildings, 1221 and 1223 Locust Street, from about 1910 through the 1970s. The building at 1223 was designed by Frank Furness, and 1221 is believed to have been designed by Lindley Johnson...
  
  at 1221 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Poplar House, Radnor Township, Pennsylvania