This original 1835 building was moved to the museum grounds in 1955. Formerly located on Market Street in Lockport, the building is restored to a c.1835 law and land office. The Albany Land Office, operated by Washington Hunt, was in the front room of the building.
The Washington Hunt Land and Law Office Building
It contains surveying equipment once owned by Jesse Haines, an early surveyor in the Lockport area. He drew the first maps of Lockport.
The Washington Hunt Land and Law Office: Jesse Haines’s Surveying Equipment
Above the fireplace in the land office is a painting of Belva Lockwood. She was born in the nearby town of Royalton NY in 1830 and became a teacher, a Washington, D.C. lawyer, the first woman to argue a case in the U.S. Supreme Court, and a champion of women’s suffrage.
The Washington Hunt Law Office): the portrait of Belva Lockwood
Lockwood was nominated for President in 1884 and 1888 by the Equal Rights’ Party and was the first woman to run for that office in the United States and she received 4000 votes. Belva Lockwood died in 1917 and is buried in Washington, DC.