Title Building News Today

Salon owner always wanted to be hair stylist

Listen to this article The Lawyer’s Title Building at 209 W. Washington Street has a long history in downtown Rensselaer. The original building may go back to 1881, but a fire in the 1920’s altered the building in what was then the Ellis Opera House. According to my notes, it has also housed Ben Fendig’s Shoe Store, Porter’s Men’s Clothing Store, Homer Hendrikson’s Grocery, John Michael’s Grocery Store, and the JC Penney Store, then a JC Penney Catalog Store ...