How old is glynn academy

Designed by Savannah Architect Henrik Wallin after the Library at Louvain, Belgium, our present Glynn Academy building is considered to be one of the most beautiful school buildings in Georgia.

A beautiful marble plaque recording the names of those Brunswick citizens who lost their lives in the Great War was installed at the top of the staircase in by the local chapter of the DAR. In , the Wood Gym was built with funds donated by the pupils of Glynn County as a tribute to Alfred Vincent Wood, who served as the President of the Board of Education from to The Wood Gym houses our physical education classes.

The Sidney Lanier Building, a former primary school, was incorporated into Glynn Academy in the early s. It was built in and named for the poet Sidney Lanier, who wrote a set of lyrical nature poems known as the "Hymns of the Marshes" describing the vast open salt marshes off the coast of Georgia. The Sidney Lanier Building was renovated during the school year. The "new" Gym was completed in to accommodate a growing student population. The Science Building. The Science Building was completed in and houses the Media Center and both literature and science classes.

The Science Building was renovated during the school year. It was in this building that a great tragedy occurred as a result of a political quarrel over the control of town commons. Carey W. Pistols were drawn and in the quick exchange of shots that followed, Moore was killed. Styles was never brought to trial and was triumphantly vindicated two months later by his election as mayor. In this same Col. This Glynn Academy on Hillsborough Square was superseded in by a large brick building facing Mansfield Street and with its grounds occupying the entire city block bounded by Carpenter, Wolfe, Monk, and Mansfield Streets.

The former Building continued to be used for various school and civic purposes until when it was moved to Sterling for use as a school for Negroes. But in the large enrollment of pupils made it necessary to erect another building. It was then that the high school grades were removed to a new and still larger brick building on the southern half of Hillsborough Square, facing Mansfield Street.

Much later when Sidney Lanier Grammar School was building in and became a part of Glynn Academy in , this old building completely renovated and greatly improved, became an annex to the present Glynn Academy.

As the school population of Glynn county continued to increase, new quarters were imperative. At the conclusion of World War I, it was decided that a new school building be erected as a memorial to the men of Glynn County who participated in that struggle. A bond election provided the funds and the present building, designed to include a memorial auditorium, administrative offices and an enlarged Glynn Academy was erected.

The architect, Hendrik Wallin , in carrying out the memorial idea, used as his motif the architectural design of the celebrated Louvain Library in Belgium, whose destruction by the Germans so infuriated the civilized world.

The resulting building — a beautiful and dignified structure was erected on the northern half of Hillsborough Square, Glynn Academy facing Mansfield Street on the south and the Memorial Auditorium facing the north, its entrance being the center of Norwich Street which it blocks.

Since September, , this memorial building has been the home of Glynn Academy, but so great has been the increase in students and so numerous have been the courses added to the curriculum that several additional buildings are now in use. They are the A. Residing approximately where the current Glynn Academy auditorium sits today, the Old Academy building was eventually moved to the Sterling community in , where it was used by the community as a school for African American students.

The "old Sterling Building", as it was called by then, was finally returned to its rightful home on the Glynn Academy campus in In addition to being the second oldest wooden school house in America, it is also the only remaining antebellum building in Glynn County and it is finally home where it belongs. Commissioned by Glynn County's school board and designed by Alfred S. Billed as three buildings in one, the Annex was celebrated for its innovative "Fire Proof" design consisting of solid brick walls between each of its distinct sections.

It consisted of two outer buildings with four "recitation" rooms each two upstairs and two downstairs framing a center section originally configured with two large study rooms. The two center study rooms were designed to accommodate a combined total of students. Thank you for these pictures. Wonderful memories! Awesome school and great rivalry! Glad Glynn Academy will be there always!! Awsome environment at all three schools…my fellow students and the talented teachers provided class rooms of learning that resulted in a broad well balanced education.

Living and growing up in Glynn County was pleasant and fulfilling. Was there a Lanier in Brunswick. He resided in Montgomery for a few years. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.

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