Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 72000359 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | Built 1896 (1896) Opened 1896 Added to NRHP 20 January 1972 | |
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Location Georgia College campus, Milledgeville, Georgia People also search for Atkinson Hall, Georgia's Colonial Coast Birding Trail, Andalusia, Memory Hill Cemetery | ||
Atkinson Hall is a historic building at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia. Atkinson Hall was constructed in 1896. It is next to the Old Georgia Governor's Mansion. It was saved from demolition in 1977-78 by alumni, community support, faculty, and students. The building was home to the college's J. Whitney Bunting College of Business and is named for William Y. Atkinson and his wife, Susan Cobb Milton Atkinson. Susan Atkinson was involved in advancing women's education after communicating with her journalist friend, Julia Flisch. Atkinson persuaded her husband, a state legislator from Coweta (and future governor), to create legislation establishing Georgia Normal & Industrial College in 1889. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1972.