38. Lucy Colman Home Site, Rochester
1
Driveway between these two buildings on
Central Avenue just east of Ormond
Avenue (the left-hand building is 438
Central) may be the sole remaining
vestige of
the former Chatham Street.
2
Chatham Street (highlighted) runs north
and south between Clinton Place and
Baden Street in this 1895 Julius Bien
and Company map of Rochester.
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Driveway between these two buildings on
Central Avenue just east of Ormond
Avenue (the left-hand building is 438
Central) may be the sole remaining
vestige of
the former Chatham Street.
| Type: | Unmarked Location | Involved: | Colman, Lucy N. |
| Location: | Chatham Street, Rochester, NY | Cause: | Abolition; Woman's Rights / Suffrage; Freethought / Atheism / Secular Humanism |
Beginning in 1857 Lucy Colman lived at 33 Chatham Street. She still appears in a city directory from 1864. During these years Colman taught at -- and quickly scuttled -- a segregated school, and emerged as a controversial speaker for woman's rights.
Chatham Street no longer exists, apparently a casualty of the I-490 highway and "urban renewal." Its last vestige seems to be a driveway between two industrial buildings on Central Avenue.