The Powers Building
The Powers Building was originally constructed in 1869, additions were made in 1874, 1880, 1888, and 1891. The section closest to the corner of State and Main has a facade that looks like limestone but is actually an early form of man-made pressed stone, a sort of concrete product. The northern and western additions to the building have facades of cast iron painted a glossy gray, a very popular facade treatment in the decades after the Civil War.
This building was constructed in layers because the building’s owner, Daniel Powers, wanted to have the tallest building in Rochester. As other buildings were built taller, Powers commissioned his architects, Andrew Jackson Warner, to keep adding floors. Local folklore says that the building is haunted.
The Powers Building is located at the heart of ![[WWW]](http://rocwiki.org/wiki/eggheadbeta/img/sycamore-www.png){kind=small}
Rochester’s Four Corners on West Main Street, on the site of the very first house in Rochester, Hamlet Scrantom's cabin, constructed in 1812.
Address:
16 Main St W # 700
Rochester, NY 14614
Call: (585) 454-4840
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