Sibley Building 1912 Poster

Taken from a window of the Triangle Building, this 1912 photograph looks west. Dominating the view is the six-story addition that Sibley’s constricted in 1910. Called the Mercantile Building, the new section extended Sibley’s length an entire block, from East Main Street to North Street. It was the heyday of downtown shopping, prior to the era of expressways and suburban shopping malls. (Courtesy New York Museum of Transportation Collection.) Rochester NY