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Hotel Washington opened in 1918 and remains standing today, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Due to its location across the street from the Treasury Department and proximity to the White House, the hotel has remained relevant to…

A view of the Great Plains in Nebraska.

This small watercolor uses a technique Dove called "extraction": abstracting from some landscape only those elements necessary to render it. Here we see a few lines of ink used to trees, clouds, and a power line; watercolor and gouache then complete…

This letter, written by Dow to Letchworth, describes the initial reaction Dow and others had to a proposed reforestation project in partnership with Letchworth. Dow discusses his efforts to get in touch with people to begin making the project a…

Three women and one man are seen riding horses along a muddy trail; a younger rider with two braided pigtails leading them. A faded building is seen in the background--and we remind ourselves that this is New York City. There seem to be three…

2015 street excavation project unearthed a tunnel at 5 Main Street that evoked fugitive slaves, but may simply have been an old sewer line

Interview with the Livingston County Historian concerning her opinion on the actual purpose of the rumored Underground Railroad tunnel on Geneseo's Main Street.

The Frederick Douglass statue in Rochester, NY was originally displayed in a high-traffic area in front of a railroad station. The statue was later transported to Highland Park.

The construction of the New York Central Railroad station in Rochester was indicative of a rise in industrialist development in the city in the mid-1800s.

Corinthian Hall in Rochester was the site of Frederick Douglass' 1852 "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" speech.