CACC Reopens Historic Bell Building

Coastal Alabama Community College (CACC) has announced its Bell Building, the original home of the Marietta Johnson School of Organic Education, recently reopened its doors on the CACC Fairhope campus after being renovated. With funding support from the Fairhope Single Tax Colony, CACC employed Langan Development and Lathan McKee Architects to deconstruct and rebuild the building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is home to a museum dedicated to Marietta Johnson and the School of Organic Education, as well as CACC’s art program. It is the state’s oldest existing school building still in continuous use as a classroom facility. CACC has also employed Alan Samry as its museum curator for the Marietta Johnson Museum. Samry noted the volume of archives, pictures and letters that tell a story of education in the early 1900s through today.