Its flagship store, at 228 East Main Street in downtown Rochester, also housed its headquarters and featured an elegant executive dining room on the top floor.

Rufus Sibley, Alexander Lindsay, and John Curr were employees at the Hogg, Brown & Taylor dry-goods store in Boston.

[4] With the postwar growth of the suburbs, Sibley's expanded outside the city in 1955 with its first branch location at Eastway Plaza in Penfield.

In 1991[8] the State University of New York's Monroe Community College, also known as MCC, opened its second campus at the Sibley Building.

The renovations seek to combine the historic treasure of this architectural space while also creating a sleek, modern atmosphere for today's standards.