Confederate Memorial Hall, Vanderbilt University, University building in Nashville, United States

Memorial Hall is a 1935 brick dormitory building on the Peabody College campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built with a $50,000 donation from the United Daughters of the Confederacy toward a total construction cost of $140,000, and it housed female descendants of Confederate veterans who studied education there free of charge. The university removed the word Confederate from its name in 2016.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy began planning the hall in the mid-1890s and donated $50,000 in 1933; construction cost $140,000 and finished in 1935. It housed female descendants of Confederate veterans, chosen by the UDC to study education free of charge. Vanderbilt acquired Peabody College in 1979. After lawsuits and protests, the university removed "Confederate" from the name in 2016, repaying the UDC with a $1.2 million anonymous donation.

Edith D. Pope, editor of the Confederate Veteran and a leader of the Nashville No. 1 chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, pressed for the building and for a course on Southern history at Peabody College. Students protested the name from 1988, and in 2016 an anonymous $1.2 million gift let Vanderbilt repay the UDC's $50,000 contribution.

The building sits in a central location on campus and is easy to find from the main pathways. Keep in mind that this is an active student residence hall, so interior access may be limited during regular academic hours.

The 2016 renaming was funded by an anonymous $1.2 million gift, enough to repay the United Daughters of the Confederacy's original $50,000 contribution. The UDC accepted "reluctantly", and the word Confederate was first hidden with a temporary covering. Earlier, a court suggested repayment before the university dropped its suit.