Congress first appropriated nearly $3 million for the Center for Research on Human Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention in 1989.  The original goal of the facility was to reduce chronic diseases through the study of diet and nutrition.  Since 1989 the federal government reduced spending on projects such as the Nutrition Center, thus leaving the building with not nearly enough money to be completed as scheduled.  Consequently, the Nutrition Center was slowly worked on floor by floor as they received funding bit by bit.

The Commons is a four story building that links the Gray Building to the Nutrition Center.  It was decided to finish this area of the project (in 1996) before completing the research building.  The Commons, also known as the Nutrition Education Wing, has a conference center.

In this photograph, the Nutrition Building is the middle building with green glass.

When Ardmore Tower was first built, it was seven stories and had 310,000 square feet of area.  In 2004 a four story addition was added to Ardmore Tower, bringing the total number of floors to eleven, thus making it equally as tall as the surrounding buildings.

In this photograph, Ardmore Tower (red arrows) is at its original height of seven stories.  The emergency department is located under the arrow on the right that points at the white roof.  In 2002 Ardmore Tower West was built on top of the emergency department in Ardmore Tower. 

The Sticht Center was designed to house a geriatric day hospital with nutritional education, physical therapy, counseling, and recreation therapy.  The new facility would also have psychiatry and rehabilitation programs for geriatric patients, including an indoor therapy pool and training apartments where patients could practice independent living.

This photograph was taken in 1997, when the center opened.