MUSC Buildings and Facilities

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Buildings & Facilities Timeline

Year	Events
1826	College acquired its first permanent building on the corner of Queen and Franklin streets
1825-1832	US Arsenal built; St. Luke’s Chapel originally artillery shed. Known as St. Timothy’s Chapel during the period of Porter Military Academy; in 1966 renamed for St. Luke, the patron saint of physicians.
1852	First Roper Hospital completed on Queen Street for use as city hospital and teaching hospital for the Medical College of South Carolina.
1856	Roper Hospital opened for regular use (briefly used in 1854 yellow fever epidemic)
1861	Colcock Hall built as a foundry by the Confederate States of America government on the site of the US Arsenal. After being use for classrooms by Porter Military Academy, Colcock Hall was the first building to be used by the School of Dental Medicine in 1865. Later University Press, Alumni Association, Public Relations, Development, and the Waring Historical Library used the building. After extensive restoration, it opened as the MUSC Administration Offices in 2006.
1886	First Roper Hospital closed due to earthquake damage.
1894	Waring Historical Library originally built as a library for the Porter Military Academy and named for Reverend Charles Hoffman of New York, who provided the construction cost of $7,500. Dedicated in 1969 as the Waring Historical Library, named for Dr. Joseph I. Waring.
1906	Second Roper Hospital built on the corner of Calhoun and Lucas streets.
1914	Medical College of the State of South Carolina established as state institution in 1913; the first building of the state institution completed in 1914 on Jonathan Lucas (previously Barre) and Calhoun streets. Later, the Hollings Cancer Center is built on that site and included the original façade from the 1914 building.
1920	Physiology-Pharmacology building (building D of the Quadrangle) built.
1930	Library-Pathology building built on the corner of Jonathan Lucas (previously Barre) and Calhoun streets. When a new library was built in 1971, the building housed offices. It was torn down in 1982. The Hollings Cancer Center was later built on this site.
1940	Outpatient-Laboratory building built, buildings C and E of the Quadrangle.
1940	Simon Baruch Auditorium added to the Medical College. Bernard Baruch gave the building in memory of his father, for whom the building is named.
1946	Third Roper Hospital opened (started construction in 1943).
1952	Laboratory-Clinic building, or Cancer Clinic, constructed, with the College of Pharmacy occupying the fourth floor. By the 1970s the College of Pharmacy occupied the entire building.
1954	Alumni Memorial House, a dormitory, built.
1955	Medical College Hospital opened as the teaching hospital for the Medical College.
1956	School of Nursing building built.
1959	Second Roper Hospital Building closed.
1962	Research Building built, named for Robert Petrie Walton, Ph.D., in 1982.
1963	Porter Military Academy property acquired for $1,136,000. MUSC retained three buildings from the site for use by the university: St. Luke’s Chapel, the Waring Historical Library, and Colcock Hall.
1965	Pinehaven Tuberculosis Sanatorium converted to the Charleston Memorial Hospital, and a wing was added.
1966	Veteran’s Administration Hospital built.
1970	Basic Sciences/College of Dental Medicine Building opened.
1970	Castle Pinckney Inn purchased and used for Continuing Education programs and later used as a parking lot and helicopter pad.
1971	Construction completed on the Library-Administration Building (started in 1970)
1972	Parking Garage I added, a few years later a portion of it is enclosed for offices.
1975	Macaulay Museum of Dental History erected to house the collection of dental antiques and artifacts of Dr. Neill W. Macaulay of Columbia.
1975	Clinical Sciences Building constructed.
1976	Storm Eye Institute opened.
1976	College of Allied Health Sciences Building completed in August. Located at the corner of President and Bee streets, the building housed classrooms, laboratories, and administrative offices of the College of Allied Health Sciences.
1977	University Services Building built, which became part of the Psychiatric Institute in 1989.
1977	Wickliffe Faculty-Alumni House purchased with donations from Margaret Wickliffe from West Union, S.C. The property included the Guest House.
1978	First National Bank building purchased.
1978	Two floors added to the Clinical Science building.
1979	Summerall Center (later called Harborview Office Tower) occupied by MUSC.
1982	Former Riverside Geriatric and Convalescent Center on Calhoun Street purchased to house the new Department of Family Medicine.
1984	Renovations of the Guest House complete.
1987	Sebring-Aimar house dedicated for use of Alumni Office and Development Office.
1987	Children’s Hospital opened (construction started in 1982).
1987	Parking Garage II dedicated.
1988	Institute of Psychiatry opened June 10.
1988	Red Cross building acquired, later housed Public Safety.
1989	Hurricane Hugo hit Charleston, S.C.; destroyed St. Luke’s Chapel. Damages to the remaining portions of the first Roper Hospital on Queen Street required demolition of building.
1991	Harborview Office Tower (formerly Summerall Center) purchased.
1992	MUSC Hospital’s North Tower dedicated.
1993	Stiles and Virginia Harper Student Center dedicated (groundbreaking 1988).
1993	Hollings Oncology Center renamed Hollings Cancer Center.
1994	Rededication of the restored St. Luke’s Chapel.
1997	Strom Thurmond Biomedical Research Center and the Gazes Cardiac Institute opened.
1998	Storm Eye Institute expansion and the Rutledge Tower Ambulatory Care Facility opened.
2000	MUSC’s Bone and Joint Center opened (May).
2001	Enterprise Community/MUSC Neighborhood Health Clinic opened (construction began in September 1999).
2002	Quadrangle D and C buildings demolished to make room for the new Hollings Cancer Institute expansion.
2005	Charles P. Darby Children’s Research Institute dedicated (February).
2005	Ashley-Rutledge Parking garage opened (June).
2005	College of Health Professional complex completed and opened (groundbreaking October 2003).
2005	Hollings Cancer Center Expansion Project completed (began 2001).
2006	James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine building construction begun (groundbreaking August 18).
2007	Ashley River Tower (ART) dedicated on October 12.
2008	Bee Street Parking Garage opened.
2009	Construction begun on the Drug Discovery Building (DDB) and the Bioengineering/Cancer Genomics Building (BEB).
2009	Library-Administration Building renamed James W. Colbert Education Center and Library.
2009	Dental Clinic opened.
2010	James B. Edwards College of Dental Medicine dedicated.
2011	James Clyburn Plaza opened.
2011	Drug Discovery Building (DDB) and the Bioengineering/Cancer Genomics Building (BEB) dedicated.
2012	MUSC Health East Cooper opened in Mt. Pleasant (July 9).
2012	MUSC's Children's Rehabilitation Service Center, Sleep Center, and Wheelchair Seating and Mobility Clinic opens.
2013	Hollings Cancer Center dedicated a pavilion in honor of Dr. Carolyn E. Reed.
2015	Groundbreaking of MUSC Primary Care in Goose Creek (August 21).
2015	Zucker Institute for Applied Neurosciences is dedicated.
2015	North Charleston After Hours Primary Care Clinic opens.
2016	Groundbreaking for the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital and the Pearl Tourville Women's Pavilion (August 12)
2017	Groundbreaking for the MUSC Children's Health Ambulatory Campus in North Charleston (June 30)
2017	Innovation Station opens on the first floor of the Colbert Education Center and Library Building
2019	Dedication ceremony for the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital and the Pearl Tourville Women's Pavilion (August 9)
2020	Opening of the MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital and the Pearl Tourville Women's Pavilion (February 22)
2023	College of Pharmacy celebrates the grand opening of its new building (April 14-15).
2023	Colbert Education Center and Library Building renovation is completed.
2023	The MUSC Healthcare Simulation Center is relocated from the College of Nursing Building to the second floor of the Colbert Education Center and Library.

Last Updated: Jul 10, 2023 1:45 PM
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