Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education, 2019. Image courtesy of MHCF.

LEED-certified Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education, 2019. Image courtesy of MHCF.

Entrance to the Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education at the corner of 21st Ave N and Albion St. Image courtesy of MHCF.

Amphitheater at Meharry, 2019. Behind the amphitheater you can see the Lloyd Elam Mental Health Center, the Nashville General Hospital George Russell Tower, and the S.S. Kresge Learning Resource Center. Image courtesy of MHCF.

Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education, 2019. Image courtesy of MHCF.

Fisk University and Meharry Medical College

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Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education

The Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education opened in 2014 and serves as both a center for campus life and a community resource for conferences, events, and seminars. The building features a 600-seat ballroom, a 50-seat executive board room, an auditorium, and a food court. The construction of the eco-friendly building, which is LEED certified and covered by a 17,000 square-foot green roof, was made possible by a $3 million donation from the Cal Turner Family Foundation.

The former CEO of Dollar General, Cal Turner, Jr. is a Nashville philanthropist and civic leader. The Cal Turner Family Center is one project of many that are part of the nearly $90 million that Meharry has invested in campus construction and renovation since 2007. A resource for both the college and the public, the building is a landmark of the tremendous growth Meharry has experienced in recent years. Inside, you’ll find the campus store and visitor’s center, so be sure to check it out!

Turn LEFT onto Albion Street and begin walking up the hill. Stop in front of the modern white building across the street on your right. This is your next stop—the S.S. Kresge Resource Center

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Tour Stops

Livingstone Hall, Samuel McElwee, Ella Sheppard Moore

1701 Jackson St., Nashville, TN 37208

Isaiah T. Creswell House and Thomas Talley House

914 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208

Fisk Gates and John Hope and Aurelia Elizabeth Franklin Memorial Library

1012 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208

Harris Music Building and Cravath Hall

1000 17th Ave. N. Nashville, TN 37208

Fisk Memorial Chapel

1000 17th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37208

Park-Johnson Hall and Cordie Cheek

1699-1601 Phillips St., Nashville, TN 37208

Spence Hall, Shane Hall, and John Wesley Work

1020 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208

Jubilee Hall

1000 17th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37208

Minnie Lou Crosthwaite and Dora Ann Scribner

1700 17th Ave. N, Nashville, TN 37208

Carnegie Academic Building and Talley-Brady Hall

1741 Meharry Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208

Little Theatre and Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery

998 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208

W.E.B. DuBois Statue, Fisk Memorial Bell, and DuBois Hall

1000 17th Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37208

Notable Alumni and Faculty

912 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville TN 37208

Hulda Margaret Lyttle

1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208

Meharry Medical College and Dr. D.B. Todd Blvd.

1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208

St. Anselm's Church and the Home of Z. Alexander Looby

2099-2015 Meharry Blvd, Nashville, TN 37208

Dr. Harold Dadford West

1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208

Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education

1011 21st Ave. North, Nashville TN 37208

Kresge Learning Resource Center

2001 Albion St., Nashville TN 37208

Nashville General Hospital

1818 Albion Street, Nashville, TN 37208

Dr. Dorothy Brown

1802 Albion Street, Nashville TN 37208

Full Record & Citation

Title Cal Turner Family Student Center

Creator Nashville Historical Foundation

Author Caroline Tvardy, Belmont University; 2020

Date 2014

Address 1011 21st Ave. North, Nashville TN 37208

Description The Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education opened in 2014 as the first new building at Meharry Medical College completed since 1978. The center includes classrooms, boardrooms, and meeting areas of all sizes as well as several other resources for students such as a café, registrar’s office, and a school spirit shop. The building is also LEED certified and incorporates natural greenery instead of a traditional roofing system to reduce the building’s environmental impact.

Type Former Site of Building

Coverage Area 4

Source Moody Nolan, architecture firm

Contributor Cal Turner Family Foundation; Dollar General ; Greenrise Technologies ; Meharry Medical College

Subject African Americans; Education; Events; Heath and Disease ; New Nashville

Keywords Buildings, Colleges, Universities, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Medical Schools, Meharry Medical College , Student Centers, Cal Turner Family Student Center

Rights CC BY-NC 4.0

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