On top of all this, Vanderbilt did not even originally own this building.
This was a separate school and a separate campus (across the street).
It was on the campus of Peabody College for Women. Confederate Hall was a women's domitory.
My mother went back to school there to get her Master's in Teaching in 1957 and as a 9 year old boy, I stayed there for 3 months while my father was in South America. Everyone on the floor knew I was there but no one every squealed to the authorities.
Peabody had a teaching school back in the late 1800s for men as well.
My great grandfather went there in the 1890s to get of all things his Postmaster degree.
My mother-in-law got her degree from Peabody. I'll ping my wife on this and maybe she can pass the news on.
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