[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.