Hubbard House

George W. Hubbard was Meharry's founding president and held the post from the college's opening in 1876 until he retired in 1921. He had taken his own medical degree at Vanderbilt in 1879. Meharry began with nine students after Samuel Meharry, an Irish immigrant who traded salt, and four of his brothers gave 15,000 dollars in 1875; he is said to have promised a Black family who once helped him that he would do something for their race. Hubbard Hospital, named for him in 1916, closed in 1994.

What the plaque says

Hubbard House Built about 1921 from donations of Meharry Medical College alumni and trustees, Hubbard House served as the retirement home of Dr. George W. Hubbard, a founder and head of Meharry for 44 years. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its architecture and its link to Dr. Hubbard, this building is the last remnant of the original Meharry campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 0.6 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.
• National Museum of African American Music — 1.3 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 — 1.3 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.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 1.4 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.

More markers nearby

• Tom Wilson Park — steps away
• Battle of Nashville: Lafayette Street — steps away
• William Carroll — 0.3 mi
• Cameron-Trimble & Black Self-Emancipation / Education for Black Empowerment — 0.3 mi