Stone Hall, Atlanta University | |
.jpg) Stone Hall in 1979 | |
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| Location | Morris Brown College campus,Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Coordinates | 33°45′16″N84°24′31″W / 33.75444°N 84.40861°W /33.75444; -84.40861 |
| Built | 1882 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000680 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 2, 1974[1] |
| Designated NHL | December 2, 1974[2] |
| Designated ALB | October 14, 1989 |
Fountain Hall, formerlyFairchild Hall andStone Hall, is a historic academic building on the grounds ofMorris Brown College inAtlanta, Georgia. Built in 1882, it is the oldest surviving building originally associated withAtlanta University—now Clark Atlanta University—which is the first of allhistorically black colleges and universities in theAmerican South founded September 19, 1865. It was declared aNational Historic Landmark in 1974.[2][3] It is now named after Bishop William A. Fountain.[4]
Fountain Hall is located southwest of downtown Atlanta, in theAtlanta University Center area, on the campus ofMorris Brown College. It is set on the south side of Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard SW, between Sunset Avenue and Vine Street. The building is a3+1⁄2-story masonry structure, built out of red brick. It is capped by a hip roof, and has a five-story tower rising above its recessed entrance.[3] The building was designed by the Swedish-American architectG. L. Norrman in theHigh Victorian Gothic style.[5]
Atlanta University was founded September 19, 1865, chartered October 17, 1867; offered first instruction at postsecondary level 1869; first graduating class 1873, (normal school for future teachers including women); and awarded its first six bachelor's degrees June 1876. One woman earned a bachelor's degree from Atlanta University between 1876 and 1895. Seven women received bachelor's degrees from Atlanta University between 1895 and 1900. Atlanta University awarded bachelor's degrees 53 years (1876–1929) before exclusively offering graduate degrees. In 1929–30, it began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas, and in the social and natural forensics. and opened in 1869 by a missionary society, to provide a high-quality advanced education to southern African Americans. The school offered undergraduate and graduate-level education until 1929, when it became solely a graduate school, working in affiliation with the other schools in the Atlanta University Center. Stone Hall, the most prominent building on its campus, was built in 1882, and housed administrative offices and classrooms. The school produced a large number of prominent African American leaders in business, education and politics. Dr.W.E.B. Du Bois was the most distinguished members of the faculty. Stone Hall was in 1929 deeded toMorris Brown College, which renamed it first to Fairchild Hall and then Fountain Hall.[3]
In 2019, the Atlanta chapter of theAssociation for the Study of African American Life and History started a "Friends of Fountain" financial campaign to stabilize and preserve Fountain Hall, with the intention of eventually renovating the space as "an academic building and Civil Rights interpretive gallery."[6][7][8]
In July 2019, the National Park Service awarded the college $500,000 to help restore the building.[7][9]
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help)The Fountain (Stone) Hall Preservation Project of Morris Brown College has as its goals to 1) executive the recommendations of the Lord, Aeck, Sargent Architecture Condition Assessment Report (CAR) to stabilize (mothball) this National Historic Landmark building, designated in 1976, for a period of up to five years, and 2) provide Morris Brown College safe and secure access to 1882 building for "Friends of Fountain" Capital Campaign fundraising activities to secure funding to fully restore/rehabilitate Fountain (Stone) Hall as an academic building and Civil Rights interpretive gallery in collaboration with the Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
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