and a two-level, 109-car parking lot Critical Care Hospital – Central Virginia's only level-one trauma center, the 15-story Critical Care Hospital specializes in intensive care Medical Sciences Building II – a research lab W. Baxter Perkinson Jr Building – School of Dentistry. A addition to the School of Dentistry on Leigh Street that houses research, clinic and teaching space New School of Nursing – an additional of research and training space for the VCU nursing program MCV Campus Recreation Center – a addition to the Recreation and Aquatic Center Larrick Student Center – renovated MCV campus dining court History of the VCU Medical Center VCU created an online timeline, now at Archive.org, that goes from 1838 to 2009. Founding On December 1, 1837, the president and trustees of Hampden–Sydney College created a medical department to be located at Richmond. Founders of the college Dr. Richard Lafon Bohannan – Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children Dr. Lewis Webb Chamberlayne – Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics Dr. John Cullen – Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine Dr. Augustus Lockman Warner – Dean and Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy Dr. Socrates Maupin – Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy Dr. Thomas Johnson – Professor of Anatomy and Physiology First year MCV opened on November 5, 1838, in the old Union Hotel located at the corner of Nineteenth and Main streets. The college began as the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College. There were forty-six students enrolled in the first class, which lasted from November 5, 1838 – April 4, 1839. Students paid $20 to the professors for each of the six courses. 1850–1861 The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College received an independent charter from the General Assembly in 1854, and became the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Shortly thereafter, in 1860, it transferred all its property to the Commonwealth and became a state institution. There had not been a separate hospital where patients could be housed within the college buildings since the beginning. A new hospital, known as the College Infirmary, was built at a cost of $22,336.57 and opened in April, 1861. Civil War Soon the Civil War erupted, and the college found itself playing an important role in the education of Confederate surgeons and in the hospital care of sick and wounded military personnel. During the war, the school remained open, and it graduated a class every