MANY ROADS TO FREEDOM:
ABOLITIONIST AND CIVIL WAR SITES IN ROCHESTER

1. THE TALLMAN BUILDING

An interior view of the office where Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, was printed. The office was located in the Tallman Building on the south side of Main Street in Rochester, quite close to the Main Street Bridge and the Genesee River. This view shows some of the printing press equipment used in the 19th century. Frederick Douglass is said to have housed runaway slaves at this office as part of the Underground Railroad.

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