Second Urban Home Purchased by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass purchased a house on what was then Hamilton Place in 1855. It was one of several investments he made in Rochester real estate around that time.

Douglass's ownership of the house had escaped detection for so long because of its unique circumstances. Douglass had registered it under his daughter's married name in 1872. Only in January 2010 did the City of Rochester's Preservation Board officially acknowledge it as a third Douglass Rochester residence: Rochester's only Douglass homesite on which the original structure still stands.