Historical Marker
Powers and Wilder Buildings
Historical marker location:
2 East Main Street, Rochester, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of East Main Street and State Street, on the right when traveling west on East Main Street.)
The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.