1925—Vanderbilt University Medical Center moved to 21st Avenue South and Garland. The
building is a four-
story structure with two east-west corridors, S and T (which stood for service and teaching), and intersecting north-south hallways A, B and C.
story structure with two east-west corridors, S and T (which stood for service and teaching), and intersecting north-south hallways A, B and C.
1925—Mary Ragland Godchaux Hall opened, housing the School of Nursing (at the time
not a part of the Medical Center). The building was originally known as Mary
Kirkland Hall, and had not only classrooms and offices, but also housing for
more than 100 nurses.
1938—The first major expansion of the Medical Center saw the construction of the D
corridor to allow more space for patient rooms, Pediatrics and Ob/Gyn.
1954—The S.R. Light Laboratory for Surgical Research was added to the
hospital.
hospital.
1955—The Medical Arts Building opened.
1961—A.B. Learned Laboratory was opened, vastly increasing the research space
available to faculty and closing off the once open courtyard.
1962—The Round Wing (its original name, which didn’t stick, was the West Wing) opened.
1964—The A corridor was extended to provide space for, among other things, the
Medical Center Library.
1967—The Zerfoss Student Health Building was added to the rear of the Medical Center.
1967—Medical Center South opened.
1972—The Joe and Howard Werthan Building, which replaced the original façade of the 1925 building facing 21st Avenue South, was completed.
1978—Light Hall and adjacent Langford Auditorium were completed.
1980—The new Vanderbilt University Hospital was opened. The old building was
rechristened Medical Center North.
1985—The Psychiatric Hospital at Vanderbilt opened. It was originally known as the
Vanderbilt Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital, but was later converted
to serve both adults and adolescents.
1988—The Vanderbilt Clinic opened, moving almost all outpatient services out of
Medical Center North.
1989—The Kim Dayani Human Performance Center opened.
1989—The Ann and Roscoe R. Robinson Building opened. Its original name was the
Medical Research Building.
1992—Medical Center East, primarily an outpatient services building, was opened.
1993—The Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital opened.
1994—The dedication of the Eskind Biomedical Library.
1995—The Frances Williams Preston Building opened. Its original name was Medical
Research Building 2.
1997—The Vanderbilt Page-Campbell Heart Institute opened.
1998—The School of Nursing’s Patricia Champion Frist Hall opened.
2001—The first major addition to Medical Center North since 1972, the mouse vivarium
atop the Werthan Building, was completed.
2002—Medical Research Building 3,
an addition onto the Learned Lab
section of Medical Center North,
was completed.
an addition onto the Learned Lab
section of Medical Center North,
was completed.
2003—The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt was completed.
2004—The Medical Center East South Tower, including the Bill Wilkerson Center, was
completed.
2006—The Institute of Imaging Science was added to the southwest corner of Medical
Center North.
2008—The Medical Research Building 4 was completed and Langford Auditorium was
renovated.
2008—The first VMC clinic, Pediatric Rehabilitation, moved to One Hundred Oaks.
2009—VMC will open a second campus at One Hundred Oaks, with 440,000 square feet of
renovated space.
