Seney Hall
118 Few Circle, Oxford, GA 30054
Seney Hall was built in 1881 with money donated to Emory College by George Seney, a Methodist layman from Brooklyn, New York. Seney had read a Thanksgiving sermon delivered by Emory President Atticus Haygood in 1880, in which he called upon his fellow Southerners to be reconciled to the rest of the country and turn toward the creation of a new South. The "New South Sermon," as it came to be called, moved Seney to donate $130,000 to Emory-a major donation for the time.