The “Third Professor’s House” was built in 1837 by Thomas H. Wade as a duplex. It was meant to house two faculty members and their families. Enslaved people owned by professors also lived in the house and on the property. It was named after Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800-1872) by the Board of Trustees in 1946 because the former professor lived in the residence from 1837 to 1856. The trustees wished to recognize “the magnificent contribution which he made to this institution and to the freedom of the mind of man…notwithstanding his attitude on slavery.” Lieber was opposed to slavery, which the Trustees found a mark against him in 1946.