Courier Building

Address

 110 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY 13202 (map)

Area

 Armory Square
First known as the Frazee Block in 1844, it was renamed Courier Building when Courier started in October of 1856.  Despite major alterations to the building, a historically important balcony remains in tact on the Montgomery Street side.  Daniel Webster gave his famous “Syracuse Speech” from this balcony on May 26, 1851.  Webster lashed out at those who would aid and abet fugitive slaves, calling them “traitors...guilty of treason.”  Soon after, Syracusans defied the extradition law and rescued a fugitive slave named Jerry from the Missouri marshalls who had apprehended him,.  Hidden in a private home and shepherded through the underground railroad, he escaped safely  to Canada.
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