The carriage house and stable, also designed by architect Richard Arthur Johnson, still stands around the back of the property at the corner of Atlantic and McLean Streets. It is now a one-and-a-half-storey stone and stucco residence. The carriage house had six horse stalls and carriage room on the main level, and above was the hay loft and living quarters for the coachman. From the exterior, the building pretty much looks the same.

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The buildings were constructed by 1910, and the Halifax Directories list Black as residing at 111 Young Avenue in that same year.

 

Johnson had been in Boston and returned to Halifax where he had been working for a number of years, to become a partner in the architectural firm of the Hopson Brothers, in 1902. Johnson had an office on Barrington Street and remained there until 1920. Some of his work include: the Fire Station at Bedford Row/Prince Street (1909), the W.M. Brown building on Barrington (1910), two residences on Young Avenue (1909), and residences on Henry, Robie, Coburg Road, and a number of churches in various parts of the province in collaboration with Walter Busch.

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