Fountain Hall is located southwest of downtown Atlanta, in the
Atlanta University Center area, on the campus of
Morris Brown College. It is set on the south side of Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard SW, between Sunset Avenue and Vine Street. The building is a -story masonry structure, built out of red brick. It is capped by a hip roof, and has a five-story tower rising above its recessed entrance.
Atlanta University was founded September 19, 1865, chartered October 17, 1867; offered first instruction at postsecondary level 1869; first graduating class 1873, (normal school for future teachers including women); and awarded its first six bachelor's degrees June 1876. One woman earned a bachelor's degree from Atlanta University between 1876 and 1895. Seven women received bachelor's degrees from Atlanta University between 1895 and 1900. Atlanta University awarded bachelor's degrees 53 years (1876–1929) before exclusively offering graduate degrees. In 1929–30, it began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas, and in the social and natural forensics. and opened in 1869 by a missionary society, to provide a high-quality advanced education to southern African Americans. The school offered undergraduate and graduate-level education until 1929, when it became solely a graduate school, working in affiliation with the other schools in the Atlanta University Center. Stone Hall, the most prominent building on its campus, was built in 1882, and housed administrative offices and classrooms. The school produced a large number of prominent African American leaders in business, education and politics. Dr.
W.E.B. Du Bois was the most distinguished members of the faculty. Stone Hall was in 1929 deeded to
Morris Brown College, which renamed it first to Fairchild Hall and then Fountain Hall. == Restoration campaign ==