Lanier University
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Active | 1917–1922 |
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Religious affiliation
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Baptist |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
Coordinates: 33°47′29″N 84°20′56″W / 33.791415°N 84.349023°W
Lanier University, named after poet Sidney Lanier, was a short-lived university in today's Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Charles Lewis Fowler, a Baptist minister, founded Lanier in 1917. He hoped for financing from Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler but instead got backing from the Georgia Baptist Association. Lanier was to be Georgia's first co-ed Baptist college.
Architect A. Ten Eyck Brown made architectural plans for the new campus in Morningside on a crescent-shaped strip of land (see illustration). At the head of this strip, at University Drive and Spring Valley Lane, would stand a replica of the Custis-Lee Mansion in Arlington, Virginia. This was built and named Arlington Hall.
The University Park subdivision was developed around the university in 1921, and University Drive is also a reminder of that time.
Financial problems plagued the school; in 1921 the property was sold to the Ku Klux Klan, which owned it for a year, with Nathan Bedford Forrest II (grandson of the Confederate general by the same name) as Secretary and Business Manager. The university failed within a year, closing on September 1, 1922. It was sold that October.
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