Erected on Telfair Street in 1802, the Old Academy of Richmond County building is a brick two-story building designed and constructed by Richard Clarke, Richmond Academy was a military preparatory school with its student body consisting of white males dressed in military uniforms and trained as cadets. In 1926, after 124 years of being located on Telfair Street, Richmond Academy had outgrown its original campus. A new high school for boys was constructed at the corner of Baker Avenue and Walton Way to complement the girls’ high school called Tubman, which had been built down the street in 1917. The original dimensions are almost exactly the same as the existing site today. However, after fifty-four years of use, the Trustees had it renovated and redesigned in the Tudor Gothic architectural style. In 1928 the Trustees rented out the old building to the Young Men’s Library Association, with the bottom floor remaining the home for the Library which was essentially Augusta’s Public Library for 32 years. In 1933 the Augusta Museum took up residency on the second floor until the library moved out in 1960. At which time the museum occupied the entire building until 1994.