Lucy Cobb Institute, Historic former girls' school on Milledge Avenue in Athens, Georgia, United States

The Lucy Cobb Institute is a former girls' school on Milledge Avenue in Athens, Georgia, made up of several buildings. Its best-known structure is the Seney–Stovall Chapel, an octagonal red brick building designed by local architect William Winstead Thomas. The campus now houses the Carl Vinson Institute of Government of the University of Georgia.

Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb founded the academy in 1859, naming it in honor of his daughter Lucy who died from scarlet fever. The school emerged from his personal loss and his desire to provide exceptional education to young women.

The school offered advanced instruction in sciences, mathematics, rhetoric, languages, and literature that went far beyond typical finishing school lessons of that era. This broad education reflected a forward-thinking approach to what women could learn and achieve.

The building sits on the University of Georgia campus and can be easily reached by walking through the campus grounds. Visitors should check ahead about access since it currently operates as an administrative building with limited public hours.

In 1986, R.E.M. recorded two songs inside the Seney–Stovall Chapel for the documentary Athens, GA: Inside/Out. The octagonal red brick chapel, designed by local architect William Winstead Thomas, was funded after Nellie Stovall wrote to George I. Seney in 1881.