O'More College of Design

O’More College of Design, founded as O'More School of Interior Architecture and Design in 1970, is a small private college located in the historic district of Franklin, Tennessee, in the United States. It is a non-traditional, accredited college awarding the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design, Fashion Design & Merchandising, and Visual Communications which includes Graphic Design & Advertising. The Interior Design department of O'More prepares its students for professional advancement through preparation for the NCIDQ exam. The Visual Communications department encompasses a variety of traditional print disciplines along with the latest technology-based areas such as interactive, experience and motion graphics. The Fashion Design Department allows students to learn about the fashion industry and present their garments or business plans in the school's annual fashion show. It has an enrollment of about 200, with a male to female ratio of 1 to 9. The job placement rate for graduating students is in the high nineties. The Interior Design Department has been CIDA (formerly FIDER) accredited since 1974. The fashion department presents their annual Fashion Show every May, which showcases original designs by students. O'More is an excellent school, but does not offer housing.

Mrs. Eloise Pitts O'More founded the college and patterned it after Le College Feminin in Paris, France, where she studied interior design and dance. She lived on the O'More campus and remained involved in the college's operations until her death in 2002, at the age of 95. The college occupies six acres (24,000 m²) of park-like land, and includes the Abbey Leix Mansion, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Abby Leix Mansion is named after the ancestral property in Ireland belonging to the O'More family, and was the first residential structure built in the area after the Civil War in 1867. The mansion’s cellar is left over from a previous structure that burned sometime during the war. During the second Battle of Franklin, the Carnton Plantation was used as a hospital while the cellar of the original structure was used as a morgue. The grounds surrounding the mansion were also used for temporary placement of the dead.

O’More College of Design, founded as O'More School of Interior Architecture and Design in 1970, is a small private college located in the historic district of Franklin, Tennessee, in the United States. It is a non-traditional, accredited college awarding the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Interior Design, Fashion Design & Merchandising, and Visual Communications which includes Graphic Design & Advertising. The Interior Design department of O'More prepares its students for professional advancement through preparation for the NCIDQ exam. The Visual Communications department encompasses a variety of traditional print disciplines along with the latest technology-based areas such as interactive, experience and motion graphics. The Fashion Design Department allows students to learn about the fashion industry and present their garments or business plans in the school's annual fashion show. It has an enrollment of about 200, with a male to female ratio of 1 to 9. The job placement rate for graduating students is in the high nineties. The Interior Design Department has been CIDA (formerly FIDER) accredited since 1974. The fashion department presents their annual Fashion Show every May, which showcases original designs by students. O'More is an excellent school, but does not offer housing.