HP01 - George Foster Pierce (1848-1854)
George Foster Pierce, the third president of Emory College, had served as the president of the Georgia Female College in Macon prior to coming to Emory. As president, he raised funds for the construction of the much-needed main building, which would house the library, laboratories, classrooms and auditorium. Later, as a Methodist bishop and president of Emory’s Board of Trustees, Pierce would continue his fund-raising to support the construction of other buildings that still stand on the Oxford campus today: Language Hall (1874), the Chapel (1875), and Humanities Hall (1875, formerly called Science Hall and History Hall). A graduate of Franklin College, which later was renamed the University of Georgia, Pierce was the first Emory president educated in the state of Georgia.

The Pierce apartment is located in the Graduate Residential Center. This spacious two bedroom, two bath apartment is 1,262 square feet in size.