Franklin Pierce
Address
501-549 9th St
Rapid City, SD 57701
44.081891, -103.232497
Fourteenth President of the United States
1853-1857
Location: Corner of 9th St. & Main St.
Sculptor: James Van Nuys
Facts:
- He was the first president to put a Christmas tree in the White House
- He lost his 11 year old son two months before he took office due to a train wreck. He was his third son to die
- He became friends with the famous writer Nathaniel Hawthorne while they were students at Bowdoin College together
