Washington Seminary (Atlanta)

As time passed, Anita began teaching the younger daughters of the house and eventually neighboring children.

Anita contacted her sister Lola, to help and Misses Washington's School for Girls was born.

[3] In 1885 Mrs. Emily Stewart purchased the school from Miss Lola Washington and moved to a large Victorian house on Walton Street.

[5] In 1912, the school moved to an estate formerly known as La Colina, a name bestowed upon the land by Colonel Clifford L. Anderson, founder of Trust Company of Georgia who was also a lawyer and state legislator.

The first is the Lewis H. Beck Archives of The Westminster Schools, while additional materials can be found at the Atlanta History Center.

This was the main building of Washington Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, on Peachtree Street, in use from 1912-1953.