Alexander Lucius Twilight (September 23, 1795 – June 19, 1857) was an American educator, minister and politician.

There he designed and built Athenian Hall, the first granite public building in the state of Vermont.

[2] Twilight taught for four years in Peru, then moved to Vergennes, Vermont, in 1828 to teach during the week and hold weekend church services in Waltham and Ferrisburg.

[2] He built a house for his family shortly after arrival, which still stands and is the headquarters of the Orleans County Historical Society.

[6] Wanting to create a residence dormitory to accommodate out of town students, from 1834 to 1836, Twilight designed, raised funds for, and had built a massive four-story granite building which he called Athenian Hall.

[2] The first granite public building in Vermont,[3] it served as a dormitory for the co-educational school, also known as the Brownington Academy.

[2] In October 1855, Twilight suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed and caused him to retire as principal of the Brownington school.

There it sits, unshaken and monolithic, as I write this sentence and as you read it, every bit as astonishing today as the day it was completed.

What a tribute to the faith of its creator, the Reverend Alexander Twilight: scholar, husband, teacher, preacher, legislator, father-away-from-home to nearly 3,000 boys and girls, an African American and a Vermonter of great vision, whose remains today lie buried in the church-yard just up the maple-lined dirt road from his granite school, in what surely was, and still is, one of the last best places anywhere.