Oglethorpe University Tour Saturday, March 31

The DeKalb History Center is hosting a tour of Oglethorpe University on Saturday, March 31. , chartered near Milledgeville, Georgia in 1835 as a Presbyterian college and the alma mater of poet Sidney Lanier, perished during the Civil War.  In 1916, educator Dr. Thornwell Jacobs reopened the school at its present landmark location on Peachtree Road.  

Its distinctive Collegiate Gothic architecture was designed by the noted Atlanta firm of Morgan & Dillon, with associate Walter T. Downing.  The Georgia granite buildings, trimmed with Indiana limestone and topped with Vermont slate roofs, are what Jacobs called Oglethorpe's "Silent Faculty" and are on the National Register of Historic Places.  Jacobs intended for the campus to be a "living memorial" to James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia and the architecture was inspired by his alma mater, Corpus Christi College Oxford.  The university has the most famous multi-millennial time capsule in the world, the Crypt of Civilization, sealed in 1940 and not to be opened until 8113 AD.
 
The tour guide is Dr. Paul Hudson, an Oglethorpe University alumnus, columnist for Hometown News, faculty member at Georgia Perimeter College and Oglethorpe University, and a member of the DeKalb History Center.  The tour costs $5 for non-members and is free for members of the DeKalb History Center. To make reservations, contact Melissa at forgey@dekalbhistory.org
 
Saturday, March 31 at 10 a.m. - meet at the base of the signature Lupton Bell Tower.

Source: DeKalb History Center