VlPPS/Freedom Forum First Amendment Center

This house, located at the corner of 18th Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue, was built in 1910 by banker Jefferson Davis Pullen and acquired by Peabody College in 1925 to be the residence for the Peabody College president. Since the early 1980s, the Peabody President's House has been one of several campus locations used by researchers and analysts of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS). In 1992, the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center (FAC) moved into the house. Extensive renovation that included incorporation of the residence into a larger complex was completed in 1993. Since the fall of 1993, VIPPS and FAC have shared these quarters.