A mistake made more than 100 years ago in Albany has been corrected by the addition of a lower-case letter “s.”
Governor Cuomo’s office says the “s” was added to the name of Frederick Douglass on the Capitol’s Great Western Staircase, built in the 1890s. The names and faces of 77 great Americans were carved into the stone of the staircase…but Frederick Douglass’ name was spelled with only one “s” instead of two.
The State Office of General Services hired a stone carver to add the missing “s” in the original style.