Vanderbilt University
36.144677, -86.802945
Description
Vanderbilt University was founded in 1873 as a million-dollar gift from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The 75-acre private university was designed by Bishop Holland McTyeire (1824-1889), and built by architecture firm Ludlow and Peabody and landscape architect Warren Manning (1860-1938). The school split from the Methodist church in 1914. The Peabody College section of campus, annexed in 1979, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark since 1966. The campus was designated as an arboretum in 1987 and is home to over 6,000 trees. As of 2021, the 330-acre school has an endowment of over $10 billion.
Title Vanderbilt University
Creator Nashville Historical Foundation
Author Kerlous Aziz, Belmont University; 2022
Date 1873; 1914; 1949; 1979
Address 2201 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37235
Type District
Coverage Area 3
Source Ludlow and Peabody, architecture firm; Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder
Contributor Bishop Holland McTyeire; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Landon Garland; James H. Kirkland; George Peabody College; Scarritt Bennett Center; United Daughters of the Confederacy; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital; Blair School of Music
Subject New South; Civil Rights; Education; Architecture; Health and Disease
Keywords Colleges, Universities, Districts, Fugitives, Southern Agrarians, Medical Schools, James Lawson, Perry Wallace, Basketball, Football, Dudley Field, Memorial Gymnasium, Southeastern Conference (SEC), Robert Penn Warren, John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, Randall Jarrell, Martha Rivers Ingram
Rights CC BY-NC 4.0