This year marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of Southwestern Medical College in 1943. To honor this milestone, we will be featuring photos illustrating the campus’ past. These photos are drawn from the 600+ images in the digital “UT Southwestern Images, 1943-Present” collection, available from the Library web page. The photo below dates from the late 1940s.
Southwestern Medical College, prefabricated plywood building with sign “Temporary Quarters”
The first campus of Southwestern Medical College was constructed in 1943 of prefabricated plywood buildings (often called “the shacks”) located along Oak Lawn Avenue behind Parkland Hospital on Maple Avenue. The medical school campus soon expanded to other buildings in the neighborhood, but “the shacks” remained the primary campus until 1955, when the Cary Building on Harry Hines Blvd. was completed.