Legacy
Several buildings and schools are named for Peirce. These and other memorials to him include:
- Cyrus Peirce Middle School, Nantucket
- Peirce School, West Newton
- Peirce Hall, Framingham State College
- First Unitarian Society in Newton has a stained glass window dedicated to Education which pictures Horace Mann and Cyrus Peirce. Another window is dedicated to their contemporary, Nathaniel T. Allen.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)