Kilmer Building - Railroad Terminal Historic District - Binghamton, NY
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N 42° 06.197 W 075° 54.568
18T E 424801 N 4661643
The Kilmer Building was built in 1903; modifications in 1953. This was home to the infamous Swamp Root medicine.
Waymark Code: WMQNAV
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/07/2016
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USN 00740.000291
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"Six-story brick office and warehouse building with Renaissance style detailing. First floor includes rock-faced stone piers and round-arched entrance a corner. Upper stories feature rusticated brickwork terra-cotta string courses and tablets centered at south and southeast facades bearing the inscription “Kilmer” in raised letters. Projecting corniced with paired corbels and modillions. Non-contributing one-story freight dock addition at west side, and random modern infill of first, second and some third story window openings.”
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"On the corner of Lewis and Chenango Street in downtown Binghamton stands an enormous building that towers over the rest of the city. This particular building standing at six stories high, and resembles nothing like that of its surroundings. Although it is now renovated into a modern upscale restaurant, it used to be home to one of the most successful patent medicines ever sold: Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. The successful merchandising empire of Swamp Root can be accredited to one individual who used his creative advertising and went on to become a millionaire: Willis Sharp Kilmer."