The Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) was organized in 1912 to promote education, physical fitness, and community life for the growing Jewish immigrant community. Contained in this rather plain four-story red brick building was a gymnasium, library, meeting rooms, banquet hall, kindergarten, and swimming pool. Yellow-brick details at the cornice create the illusion that the building has square corner towers. In 1955 the JEA moved to a new facility three miles to the south, and after serving a variety of functions this building was purchased in 1995 by SCAD, which converted it into an apartment-style dormitory.