Lanier University

[1] It was notable for its connections with the second Ku Klux Klan, which was also based in Atlanta and which owned the university for a time.

He hoped for financing from Coca-Cola magnate Asa Candler but instead got backing from the Georgia Baptist Association.

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.

In 1949 Congregation Shearith Israel, then in Summerhill, bought the property from the estate of Walter E. King and used it as a synagogue.

Lanier University as it was planned. Only the rightmost building, Arlington Hall, was built
Former Arlington Hall of Lanier University, now the Canterbury School