# Wilder Building

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{{short description|Historic commercial building in New York, United States}}
{{Distinguish|text = the [Robert O. Wilder Building](/source/Robert_O._Wilder_Building) in Tougaloo, Mississippi}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP
| name         = Wilder Building
| nrhp_type    =
| image        = File:WilderBuildingSummerSolstice.jpg
| caption      =
| location     = 1 E. Main St., [Rochester, New York](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York)
| coordinates  = {{coord|43|9|19|N|77|36|44|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin     = New York#USA
| built        = 1887
| architect    = [Warner & Brockett](/source/Warner_%26_Brockett)
| architecture = Romanesque
| added        = October 04, 1985
| area         = less than one acre
| mpsub        = {{NRHP url|id=64000563|title=Inner Loop MRA}}
| refnum       = 85002863<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>
}}
'''Wilder Building''' is a historic [office building](/source/office_building) located in [Rochester, New York](/source/Rochester%2C_New_York). It is an eleven-story steel or iron framed brick clad structure built between 1887 and 1888 in a modified [Romanesque](/source/Romanesque_architecture) style. It is considered Rochester's first modern [skyscraper](/source/skyscraper) and is considered to be among the oldest of the [early skyscrapers](/source/early_skyscrapers). It was designed by noted Rochester architects [Warner & Brockett](/source/Warner_%26_Brockett).<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75313616 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS Wilder Building|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= Ted Bartlett|date= August 1985| access-date=November 7, 2025 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref>

It was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1985.<ref name="nris"/>

The Wilder Building originally contained spires at each corner of its roof, but they have since been removed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lowerfalls.org/100acrestour/|title=Walking Tour of Rochester's One Hundred Acre Plot|website=www.lowerfalls.org|access-date=2017-11-30}}</ref>

== Mail Chute ==
[James Goold Cutler](/source/James_Goold_Cutler) received [https://patents.google.com/patent/US284951 U.S. Patent 284,951] on September 11, 1883, for the [mail chute](/source/mail_chute). The first one was installed in 1884 in the [Elwood Building](/source/Elwood_Building). Then, during its 1887 construction, Cutler installed a perfected mail chute in the Wilder Building.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4mSd1fsXTfAC&q=wilder+building+mail+chute&pg=PA58|title=Rochester's Downtown Architecture, 1950-1975|last=Palmer|first=Daniel J.|date=2010|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738572505|language=en}}</ref> With the Elwood Building having been demolished in 1965, the Wilder Building's mail chute is currently the oldest surviving one.

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File:WilderBuildingRochesterNewYork.jpg
File:WilderBuildingRochesterLobbyLookingIn.jpg
File:WilderBuildingRochesterLobbyLookingOut.jpg
File:WilderBuildingRochesterHallwayFloor10.jpg
File:WilderBuildingRochesterViewOfMainStreet.jpg
</GALLERY>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Wilder Building (Rochester, New York)}}

{{National Register of Historic Places in New York}}

Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Rochester, New York
Category:Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Category:Office buildings completed in 1888
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Rochester, New York

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