in that year, he opened a drug store in Rochester in a partnership with his father-in-law, David Cooper.

[2] The mason who built it was Thomas Anscomb, an English-born stonemason living in Troy Township.

The building sites on a fieldstone foundation The rear and side walls are of cobblestone with corner quoins, while the current front facade replicates a Late Victorian pressed metal facade constructed in 1899.

The original front facade was likely of Greek Revival styling, constructed of coursed cobblestones in the same manner as the sides and rear.

The current facade features a single storefront on the first floor, with five, tall double-hung windows on the second and a cornice above.