Fountain Hall

Stone Hall, Atlanta University
Atlanta Landmark Building
Fountain Hall in 1979
Fountain Hall is located in Atlanta
Fountain Hall
Location within Atlanta
Fountain Hall is located in Georgia
Fountain Hall
Location within Georgia
Fountain Hall is located in the United States
Fountain Hall
Location within the United States
LocationMorris Brown College campus, Atlanta, Georgia
Coordinates33°45′16″N 84°24′31″W / 33.75444°N 84.40861°W / 33.75444; -84.40861
Built1882
NRHP reference No.74000680
Significant dates
Added to NRHPDecember 2, 1974[1]
Designated NHLDecember 2, 1974[2]
Designated ALBOctober 14, 1989

Fountain Hall, formerly Fairchild Hall and Stone Hall, is a historic academic building on the grounds of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. Built in 1882, it is the oldest surviving building originally associated with Atlanta University—now Clark Atlanta University—which is the first of all historically black colleges and universities in the American South founded September 19, 1865. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.[2][3] It is now named after Bishop William A. Fountain.[4]

Description

Fountain Hall is located southwest of downtown Atlanta, in the Atlanta University Center area, on the campus of Morris 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 a 3+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 architect G. L. Norrman in the High Victorian Gothic style.[5]

History

Fountain Hall, originally known as Stone Hall, was constructed in 1882 and until 1929 served as the main building for Atlanta University.[6]

From 1897 to 1910, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, then a member of the faculty of Atlanta University, had his office located in the building.[7]

In 1929–30, Atlanta University began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas, and in the social and natural forensics and ceased undergraduate education.[8]

As Atlanta University had moved to its new campus, Stone Hall was in 1929 deeded to Morris Brown College, which renamed it first to Fairchild Hall and then Fountain Hall.[3]

Restoration campaign

In 2019, the Atlanta chapter of the Association 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."[9][10][11]

In July 2019, the National Park Service awarded the college $500,000 to help restore the building.[10][12]

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References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. 1 2 "Stone Hall, Atlanta University". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on January 31, 2009. Retrieved May 1, 2008.
  3. 1 2 3 James Sheire (August 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Fairchild Hall / Atlanta University – Stone Hall" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ "Fountain Hall". City of Atlanta Urban Design Commission. Archived from the original on July 5, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Fountain Hall | Atlanta, GA". www.atlantaga.gov. Archived from the original on May 29, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Home". Fountain Hall. Retrieved July 20, 2026.
  7. ↑ Admin, Morris Brown (September 10, 2025). "Morris Brown wins national grant to repair historic Fountain Hall". Morris Brown College. Retrieved July 20, 2026.
  8. ↑ "General Information: The History". catalog.cau.edu. Retrieved July 20, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Atlanta's Historic Fountain Hall". Fountain Hall. Atlanta Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Archived from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020. 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).
  10. 1 2 Keenan, Sean Richard (January 3, 2020). "Morris Brown College's historic Fountain Hall could finally be on the verge of salvation". Curbed Atlanta. Archived from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  11. ↑ Suggs, Ernie (December 27, 2019). "Grant could be key step in restoring Morris Brown's historic building". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  12. ↑ Suggs, Ernie (July 10, 2019). "Morris Brown wins national grant to repair historic Fountain Hall". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on August 17, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
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