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, one of the first historically black colleges and universities in the American South. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It is now named after Bishop William A. Fountain.Description and historyFountain 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. The building's architect is unknown.Atlanta University was founded in 1865 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 well-educated African-American leaders of the business and political community, the most famous of them probably W.E.B. DuBois. Stone Hall was in 1929 leased to Morris Brown College, which renamed it first to Fairchild Hall and then Fountain Hall.
