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Wilder Building

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This is the south side of the Wilder building in downtown Rochester. It was Rochester’s first “skyscraper”, erected in 1887 by Samuel Wilder. In 1891 Daniel Powers added three tower stories to his existing building to claim the tallest building in Rochester.  I shot this from the Broadway bridge and it doesn’t look so tall from this location because the …

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