Lanier High School

Sidney Lanier High School is a public high school located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Established originally in 1910 on the southern outskirts of downtown Montgomery, Alabama, this school was named for a well-known Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, who resided in Montgomery during 1866-67. The high school moved to new facilities in 1929 further to the south. The late Gothic Revival building was constructed 1928-1929 to consolidate the orig... more

Sidney Lanier High School is a public high school located in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Established originally in 1910 on the southern outskirts of downtown Montgomery, Alabama, this school was named for a well-known Southern poet, Sidney Lanier, who resided in Montgomery during 1866-67. The high school moved to new facilities in 1929 further to the south. The late Gothic Revival building was constructed 1928-1929 to consolidate the original Lanier (then in a building now known as Baldwin Magnet School, formerly Baldwin Junior High School) and Montgomery County High School (now the Cloverdale campus of Huntingdon College, formerly Cloverdale Junior High School). The name of the new school was decided by the outcome of a football game between the two schools in the fall of 1928, which Lanier won. Frederick Ausfeld was the architect, and Algernon Blair the contractor. Consultants from Columbia University were called in to ensure that the building incorporated all the latest... less