1. Harland Goff Wood Building
In 1924, the School of Medicine moved into the most modern and best-equipped preclinical science building in the country at that time. That building, donated by Cleveland industrialist Samuel Mather, remains an integral part of the medical school complex. It was named the Harland Goff Wood Building in 1993 in honor of the late chair and professor of biochemistry and former provost of the university.
The medical school's first permanent homes were in downtown Cleveland. The 20-site on which the Wood Building stands was secured in 1915 so that a medical center—including the School of Medicine and two of the school's affiliated hospitals, University Hospitals of Cleveland and what is now known as the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center—could be located in University Circle, the current home of Case Western Reserve University.
In 2003, a new, eight-floor addition to the Wood Building (called the research tower) was dedicated, adding more than 40,000 square feet to the medical school, primarily for research laboratories. Also as part of the project, 30,000 square feet of existing laboratory space in the Wood Building was renovated.
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