Sidney Lanier High School is a public high school located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.HistoryEstablished in 1910 on the southern outskirts of downtown Montgomery, Alabama, the school was named for a Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, who lived in Montgomery during 1866–67.The high school moved to new facilities in 1929 further to the south. The late Gothic Revival building was constructed 1928–1929 to consolidate the original Lanier (then in a building now known as Baldwin Magnet School, formerly Baldwin Junior High School) and Montgomery County High School (now the Cloverdale campus of Huntingdon College, formerly Cloverdale Junior High School).The name of the new school was decided by the outcome of a football game between the two schools in the fall of 1928, which Lanier won.Frederick Ausfeld was the architect, and Algernon Blair the contractor. The building opened for class in September 1929 and was dubbed "The Million Dollar School" due to its approximate cost.The school was desegregated in September 1964. The first blacks graduated in the summer of 1967.Notable alumniThe school claims several famous students, including Bart Starr of professional football fame and Toni Tennille of the popular 1970s singing group “Captain and Tennille.” Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, wife of famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald, and known in her own right, was part of the graduating class of 1918. NFL stars Tommy Neville, Johnny Davis, Reggie Barlow and Tarvaris Jackson attended Lanier. Longtime Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar was also a Poet. Hank Williams attended Lanier briefly in 1939 at the age of sixteen before he quit school to pursue his singing career full-time.
