Campus Features and Ornaments

Tier I: Harding Road Level
Tier II: Upper Campus, Front
Tier III: Courtyard at rear of Massey Commons
Tier IV: Front Campus Green
Tier V: John E. Sloan Quadrangle
Centennial Gate, Howard Allen, 1908-1977
Heritage of MBA Football, 1899-1998
Tommy Owen, 1924-1993

Tier V: John E. Sloan Quadrangle
Joe C. Davis Building, Frist Dining Hall, Paschall Theater
P. M. Estes, Jr. Courtyard:
Panel 1, building exterior Illustration: Nashville street grid, Administration Building, University of Nashville
Montgomery Bell Academy first began classes with twenty-six students September 9, 1867, as the preparatory department of the University of Nashville. The school was made possible by a $20,000 bequest from Montgomery Bell (1769-1855), iron industry pioneer who operated furnaces and forges in the Harpeth River Valley. MBA originally occupied two rooms in the University's main building in south Nashville. It moved in 1880 to its own building immediately east of the campus.

Panel 2, building exterior Illustration: Tinsley House, Totomoi
After selling its sound Nashville property, MBA leased temporary quarters at 415 Seventh Avenue North for the 1913-14 and 1914-15 school years. In the fall of 1915, the school moved to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Garland Tinsley on Harding Road, having purchased the 32-acre site the previous spring. The Tinsley home's Indian name "Totomoi" has been preserved as the name for MBA's prestigious Honor Society.

Panel 3, building exterior Illustration: Early campus plan
MBA built a classroom building in 1923. Two years later, Totomoi burned and was replaced by a new administration building, completed in 1927. A gymnasium was built in 1926 and a football stadium in 1940. Six years later, the football field was dedicated to the memory of Frank Maxwell Andrews (MBA, 1901) who was Commander General U.S. Armed Forces in Europe when he was killed in an airplane crash in 1943. Currey Gym was completed in 1957, the same year the administration building was renamed Ball Hall.

Panel 4, building exterior
In 1961, the old gym was converted into Wallace Hall. Wilson Library was built in 1968 and a building for Art and Speech in 1972. Massey Hall was dedicated in 1982 and a renovated classroom building was renamed Carter Hall the same year. A new athletic complex was completed in 1983, Currey Gym enlarged in 1984, and the football stadium dedicated to Coach Owen in 1991. In 1992, the Speech Building and Wallace Hall were remodeled, and the Davis Building and the Sloan Quadrangle, a central courtyard uniting the newer buildings with the cherished older structures, completed.

West end of building: With gratitude and appreciation, MBA recognizes its donors of $5,000 or more to the "Forging a Generation Ahead" Campaign 1991-1994.


Fountain
In Memoriam
Warren W. Taylor, Jr.
1948-1963
Drink to the class of '49.



Teacher-Student Sculpture
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch where through Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move
~ from "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Given in appreciation for the Faculty and Administrators at Montgomery Bell Academy and in recognition of the screenplay for Dead Poets Society, written by a graduate of MBA in celebration of one of his teachers.
May 1998
Ridley Wills, II Class of 1952 Board Chairman, 1988-1997 and his wife, Irene Wills
Sculptor: Alan LeQuire, Class of 1974

Massey Courtyard:
Benches, left to right:
In memory of Howard L. Rietz '93 November 3, 1974 - May 11, 1996
We are richer for his having been here.
By the Class of 1993

In memory of Dr. Douglas D. Paschall
Given by the Classes 1994-1999

In Honor of H. Laird Smith '58 Director of MBA's Plant and Operations whose sense of Honor, Loyalty, and Integrity Enriched MBA from 1973 to 1994.
Given by the Faculty and Staff
Donated to MBA By the Eighth Grade Class-1995

Outside Massey Courtyard
Presented by the Father's Club in Honor of H. Laird Smith '58
For 22 years of devotion and untold hours with no task too great or too small, with gratitude and appreciation.