August 17, 2016

In 1966, the former Hospital for the Treatment of Consumption and Related Diseases is converted into classrooms and opens as the Graduate School of Library Science. The Rush Building, as it is still called today, was named after Benjamin Rush, a renowned Philadelphia doctor from Philadelphia and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The tuberculosis ward and hospital moved to its location near Drexel’s campus in 1904 and remained operational until 1961, when the building was purchased by Drexel.