This building once housed Oppenheim Collins and Company. Founded in 1871 by Albert D. and Charles J. Oppenheim, Oppenheim Collins was originally a New York City skirt manufacturer, later branching into department stores catering to women. The first...
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Rochester [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated October 4, 1860, discussing his libel suit expressing desire that Spooner travel to New York to work on the case.