George Peabody College for Teachers

Peabody's pedigree is far older than its Midtown campus. Nashville set aside land for a college in 1784, and the school passed through Davidson Academy, Cumberland College and the University of Nashville before a state normal school opened on December 1, 1875, with thirteen students. The campus here, laid out in imitation of Jefferson's University of Virginia, was built between 1911 and 1914 under Bruce Payne, the first president of the renamed George Peabody College for Teachers. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and on July 1, 1979, Peabody became Vanderbilt's ninth school.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 1.4 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 1.8 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.
• National Museum of African American Music — 1.8 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Ryman Auditorium — 1.9 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.

More markers nearby

• Roger Williams University — steps away
• Hillsboro Theatre — 0.3 mi
• Belcourt Theatre Est. 1925 — 0.3 mi
• Ward- Belmont College — 0.4 mi