Eli Robbins was an East Lexington businessman who built the Ellen Stone Building in 1833.
The Robbins family and many of their friends and neighbors were abolitionists and actively involved in efforts to end slavery in the decades before the Civil War.
When other venues in Lexington refused to host abolitionist speakers and meetings, the Robbins family hosted them in the Stone Building and its second-floor lyceum.
The Lexington Lyceum Advocates are researching the history of the building to find out more about visitors to the building and the family’s abolitionist work.
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Image of Eli Robbins portrait courtesy of the Lexington Historical Society
