Livingston Hotel

The twenty-eighth annual convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (NYSWSA) was held in Rochester on Tuesday to Friday, November 17–20, 1896. On the evening of Friday, November 20, the Livingston Hotel was the site of a banquet in honor of nationally prominent suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who attended. An estimated 300 persons were present. This banquet was the final event of the 1896 convention.

The Livingston was a prominent Rochester hotel during the later nineteenth century. Its address was then listed as 33 Exchange Street. The date of the hotel's construction and demolition are not known. The location corresponds to a public parking lot whose contemporary address is best approximated as 23 Exchange Boulevard. The site is distinctive for the building that it neighbors on the south, the fourteen-story Art Deco Times Square Building, at 45 Exchange Boulevard. Its headdress-style rooftop orientation adds fully a third to the structure's height and is an unmistakable feature of the Rochester skyline.